seuen and twentieth day of
Aprill aforesaid._

Before

ROGER NOWEL, _and_ NICHOLAS BANNESTER
_Esquires; as aforesaid._ viz.

Being examined, the said _Elizabeth_ saith and confesseth, that
vpon Good-Friday last there dined at this Examinates house, those
which she hath said to be Witches, and doth verily thinke them to bee
Witches, and their names are those, whom _Iames Deuice_ hath formerly
spoken of to be there.

And shee also confesseth in all things touching the Christning of her
Spirit, and the killing of Master _Lister_ of Westby, as the said
_Iames Deuice_ confesseth. But denieth that any talke was amongst
th[=e] the said Witches, to her now remembrance, at the said meeting
together, touching the killing of the Gaoler at Lancaster; blowing vp
of the Castle, thereby to deliuer old _Dembdike_ her Mother; _Alizon
Deuice_ her Daughter, and other Prisoners, committed to the said
Castle for Witchcraft.

After all these things opened, and deliuered in euidence
against him; Master _Couil_, who hath the custodie of the
Gaole at Lancaster, hauing taken great paines with him
during the time of his imprisonment, to procure him to
discouer his practizes, and such other Witches as he knew to
bee dangerous: Humbly prayed the fauour of the Court that
his voluntarie confession to M. _Anderton_, M. _Sands_ the
Major of Lancaster, M. _Couel_, and others, might openly bee
published and declared in Court.

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_The voluntarie confession and declaration
of_ IAMES DEVICE, _Prisoner in the Castle at Lancaster._

Before

WILLIAM SANDS, _Maior of Lancaster_, IAMES
ANDERTON, _Esquire, one of his Maiesties Iustices of
Peace within the Countie of Lancaster: And_ THOMAS
COVEL, _Gentleman, one of his Maiesties Coroners in the
same Countie._ viz.

_Iames Deuice_, Prisoner in the Castle at Lancaster, saith, That
his said Spirit _Dandie_, being very earnest with him to giue him his
soule, He answered, he would giue him that part thereof that was his
owne to giue: and thereupon the said Spirit said, hee was aboue CHRIST
IESVS, and therefore hee must absolutely giue him his Soule: and that
done, hee would giue him power to reuenge himselfe against any whom he
disliked.

And he further saith, that the said Spirit did appeare vnto him after
sundrie times, in the likenesse of a Dogge, and at euery time most
earnestly perswaded him to giue him his Soul