Alison Device is examined at Reade on March 30, 1612 before Justice of the Peace for Lancashire Roger Nowell.(E4)

Anonymous 20 of Kirkham gives birth to a stillborn monster baby(4)

Anne Starchie allegedly suffers her first fit at the age of nine, in which she is taken with a heavy and dumpish countenance, and suffers a fearful starting and pulling of her body. These fits become extreme, lasting 9-10 weeks.(Image 5)

Anne Starchie, John Starchie, Eleanor Holland, and Elizabeth Hardman allegedly have a fit during which they crawl on their knees until the afternoon, fleeing from family and neighbors into other rooms while calling them "devils with horns" that creep under the bed. Once they regain the use of their feet, they can no longer speak.(Image 6)

Eleanor Holland and Elizabeth Hardman have a fit lasting three days and three nights during which they cannot eat nor can they talk to anyone but each other, "to ther lads. saue that their lads gaue them leaue (as the said) the one to eate a toast & drink, the other a sower milk posset." Despite the permission, they say that Hartley is angry they ate, and made them vomit it up again. On the last night, Eleanor Holland is made to take up a distaff and spin faster and a finer thread than she ever has before, which she did for an hour and a half straight.(Image 6)

Margaret Byrom is allegedly thrown into the kitchen fire, under a table, and numerous other places, but suffers no injuries.(Image 6-7)

Edmund Hartley is condemned and hanged at the assizes of Lancaster for allegedly causing the possession of Anne Starchie, John Starchie, Margaret Hardman, Elizabeth Hardman, Eleanor Holland, Margaret Byrom and Jane Ashton.(7)

John Darrell has Anne Starchie, John Starchie, Margaret Hardman, Elizabeth Hardman, Eleanor Holland, Margaret Byrom and Jane Ashton brought together for observation, noting that of all of them Jane Ashton and the Starchie children are most grievously tormented. Satan is said to have exceeded for cruelty with John Starchie in particular. During the observation, three or four of them scoffed and blasphemed. At one point, they allegedly all join hands to cause a strange and supernatural loud whupping noise in the house and grounds, driving Darrell and his companion George More from the room.(9)

Richard Dugdale is determined to be possessed by the Devil when he visits Mr. Jolly in Pendle Hill. He is seized with violent fits and rages when Mr. Jolly prays and reads the Bible.(1-2)

Janet Preston of Gisburne is alleged to be the first of several noted cases of witchcraft in the North in 1612.(28-29)

Elizabeth Device is examined at Read in Lancashire by Justice of the Peace Roger Nowell on March 30, 1612. During her examination, she claims that her mother, Elizabeth Southerns, "hath had a place on her left side by the space of fourty yeares."(C2v)

Justice of the Peace Roger Nowell orders Elizabeth Southerns, alias Demdike, Anne Whittle, alias Chattox, Alison Device and Anne Redferne imprisoned at the Castle at Lancaster to await their trials. They are imprisoned on the strength of their examinations and the accusations against them.(C2v)

Alison Device alleges in her confession that her familiar (Anonymous 186) appeared to her in the form of a black dog this last March, when she tried to buy some pins from a pedlar, John Law, and was refused. Her familiar asked what she would have him do to Law, and she instructed him to lame him. Law fell down in the road.(R3v-R4)

John Law gives deposition alleging that this last March, he walked through Colne with his pack of wares and there met Alison Device. Device demanded pins, but he would not give her any, and she became angry. When he left her, he fell down lame. After some time, he was able to make it to a nearby ale-house, and lay there in great pain unable to stir his limbs. He saw a great black dog standing by him, with fiery eyes, large feet and a "terrible countenance." Device came shortly thereafter, looked at him for a short time, and left. He claims that he was tormented day and night by Device thereafter, and remained lame.(R4v)

John Webster recalls the confession of Alison Device, where Device stated that her grandmother (Elizabeth Southerns) persuaded her to let a devil or familiar appear to her, a creature which Device then allowed to suck from her body.(35-36)

Edmund Robinson Jr. is questioned about the witchcraft he had reported seeing, but is stopped from answering by two men who felt the questions were unnecessary.(277)

Edmund Robinson Jr. witnesses Dickensons Wife transform from a black greyhound into her human form. Dickensons Wife attempts to bribe Robinson Jr. with a silver coin to remain silent about what he saw, but he refuses and calls her a witch. (347)

Dickensons Wife allegedly uses a bridle to transform a little boy (Anonymous 148), whom she had been traveling with as a pair of greyhounds, into a white horse, an animal that is then used to carry Edmund Robinson Jr.(347-348)

Edmund Robinson Jr. claims that Loinds Wife and Dickensons Wife chased him after he witnessed them pulling on ropes and making strange faces in a barn.(348)

Edmund Robinson Jr. claims that he saw Loinds Wife sitting on a cross piece of wood in his fathers chimney. When Robinson Jr. called for Loind's Wife to come down to him, she went up the chimney out of his sight.(348)

Edmund Robinson Jr. claims he was involved in a physical altercation with a boy (Anonymous 149) who has a cloven foot.(348)

Edmund Robinson Jr. claims he was hit on the back by a boy who has a cloven foot (Anonymous 149).(349)

Edmund Robinson Jr. claims he saw Loinds Wife and two other women (Anonymous 152 and Anonymous 153) take six pictures (which were riddled with thorns) down from a beam in a barn. (349)

Edmund Robinson Jr's testimony leads to the imprisonment of seven witches. While in prison, three died and one became deathly ill. One of these witches was named Margaret Johnson and another is named Mary Spencer.()

Margaret Johnson of Lancaster repeatedly confesses to being a witch for the last six years.()

Mary Spencer denies ever practicing witchcraft. ()

Frances Dickenson denies any involvement with witchcraft. She claims to have been wrongly accused by Edmund Robinson Jr.()

Edmund Robinson Jr. admits having made up his testimony possibly in an attempt to avoid repercussions from his father for his own delinquencies or to help his father make money or for fear of repercussions from his mother. ()

Edmund Robinson Jr. claims he saw a woman (Anonymous 155) pricking a picture with thorns.(349 (unnumbered page))

The author asserts that Edmund Robinson Jr.s claims align with what King James I claims about witches in Daemonologia.(207)

Margaret Johnson confesses that the Devil approached her in the shape of a man wearing a black suit and offered her whatever she wanted if she gave him her soul. Johnson accepted at which point the Devil asked her to call him Memillion. (78)

Edmund Robinson Jr. is re-examined. He allegedly constructed his last testimony from things he heard his neighbours say about certain women they knew, including Mary Spencer, Frances Dickenson, Margaret Johnson and Jenet Hergreaves, primarily that they were witches.(153)

Edmund Robinson, the elder, is re-examined and denies ever having identified Frances Dickenson or any other woman from the area (Lancaster) as a witch.(153)

Edmund Robinson Jr. and his father allegedly went from church to church where Edmund Robinson Jr. would identify witches in order to make a living.(lix)

Eleanor Holland and Elizabeth Hardman fortell how many fits they will have the next day before they go to sleep. Eleanor Holland alleges that she will have her fit before noon, and that it will last three hours. When the time comes, she insists an hourglass be set to record the length of the fit; her companions do so in a place where she cannot see it. Though senseless, she accurately states the quarter and half hours, and bid them turn the glass as the last sand runs down three times. When Eleanor is asked how she was able to do this, she says a white dove told her.(Image 6)

MIstress Starchie questions the five children (Anne and John Starchie, Margaret and Elizabeth Hardman, and Eleanor Holland) on how they have been handled, hoping for information she can take to preachers; they tell her that an angel came from God in the shape of a dove came to them and said they must follow it to heaven through a hole it would draw them through. They ran under the beds, where Elizabeth Hardman begins to make a hole, believing there is a boy on the other side who would help her do so.(Image 6)

Richard Dugdale, a young man from Lancashire, begs leave of his master to go to a rushbearing, or a rural festival at the dedication of a church, in Whalley. The following morning, returning to work, Richard Dugdale "being troubled in Mind, he thought that he saw several Apparitions, but could not tell the resemblance thereof."(62)

Richard Dugdale of Lancashire becomes ill while making hay, and upon the advice of a well reputed neighbour and serving woman, goes to take a drink and lie down in the Hall he works at. After "some time being laid down upon the Bed, the Chamber-Door opened of it self," and several apparitions appear to him. First, smoke or mist, then a "Hard-favoured man" he mistakes for a fellow servant or a Black man, which turns into a naked child. "All this was done when he was awake." The apparitions disappear after dancing in front of him, in a burst of flame.(62-63)

Upon a violent fit, where Richard Dugdale of Lancashire could scarce be held down, his uncle and family take him to see the neighbouring doctor, Dr. Chew. After "taking the physick from Dr. Chrew, " he had "to the best of his knowledg, [...] little advantage by the first Physick."(59)

Richard Dugdale of Lancaster consults Dr. Crabtree after his first Physick from Dr. Chew fails to cure his fits, but was amazed at Richard Dugdale's "precise fore-telling various sorts of Weather." Even though he was "blooded several times, the first of which was as black as Ink," Richard Dugdale's fits continually worsen. His father, Thomas Dugdale, stops the treatments. Dr. Chew concludes that " if the Spirit in Richard Dugdale was a Water-Spirit, there was no cure for it," and that the disease is not natural, leading to his recommendation to seek out ministers.(49)

Richard Dugdale returns to see Dr. Chew concerning his fits, which have yet to resolve themselves after having seeing Dr. Crabtree and the minister, Mr. Jolly. He takes "Physick from Dr. Chew, and says, that the Physick worked well with him, and since that time, he says, he never had any Fit," allowing him to marry and continue with his gardening profession, although it is agreed his "disease was not ordinary."(63)

Richard Dugdale experiences a number of Fits, believed to be caused by the Devil. These fits are characterized by his ability to foretell things "which he could not possibly know by any ordinary means." This includes predicting the weather, when visitors will come to call, where persons might travel to, and the time and length of his next fit. These various fits are witnessed by the minister Mr. Jolly; James Abbot; Thomas Dugdale, his father; Nathaniel Waddington; John Fielding; William Livesay; Ann Whittaker; and Joshua Thomason.(45)

Richard Dugdale of Lancaster experiences a number of fits, where "his ability of body is beyond the Joint Strength of many Lusty men." His fits are deemed beyond ordinary, possibly caused by the Devil, and witnessed by the minister Mr. Jolly; the apothecary Mr. Ainsworth; another apothecary (Anonymous 335); John Whitehead; and John Walmsly.(45)

Richard Dugdale allegedly suffers from a number of fits characterized by his ability to speak in "another Voice, besides his own," and further, his voice can be heard at great distances. Sometimes, noises arise from Richard Dugdale that are not human, but animal or strange. These fits are witnessed by the minister Mr. Jolly, John Walmsly, William Loond, John Fielding, Thomas Core, Grace Whalley, Nathaniel Waddington, John Fletcher, and Edmund Haworth.(46)

Richard Dugdale is allegedly seized by fits possibly caused by the Devil. These fits are characterized by extreme weight change, being at "one while as heavy as a Lump of Lead of that bigness, and other while as light as a Bag of Feathers of 14 or 16 pound weight." These fits are also characterized by his lifeless appearance for a considerable amount of time. Witnesses to Richard Dugdales fits of this nature include: the minister Mr. Jolly, his father Thomas Dugdale, John Walmsly, John Livesay, William Livesay, John Smalley, John Hindle, Joseph Hargreaves, Thomas Booth, John Grimshaw, and William Sellars.(46)

Richard Dugdale, allegedly suffers from many fits thought to be caused by Satan characterized by "his diabolical rage and blasphemy against God, and Christ," and at other times, "Satan sometimes in his Fits, transform himself into an Angel of Light," and recited sermons and scriptures that he had never heard. These fits are witnessed by the minister Mr. Jolly, John Livesay, and Nathaniel Waddington.(46)

Richard Dugdale is allegedly seized by a number of fits possibly caused by the Devil, characterized by his ability to "his speaking several languages, which he never learned." These fits are witnessed by the minister Mr. Jolly, William Fort, and Robert Waddington.(46)

Richard Dugdale allegedly suffers from lumps on his chest and stomach, which sometimes become mice, or rats, and at other times sounds like "a little dog." This is witnessed by Mr. Jolly and John Fletcher.(46)

Richad Dugdale allegedly vomits a number objects during his fits which are believed to be caused by the Devil, including gold, silver, and brass rings; a hair button; stones; and a curtain-ring. These fits were witnessed by the minister Mr. Jolly; Richard Dugdale's father, Thomas Dugdale; Edmund Hayworth; Grace Whalley; and John Hindle.(49)

Richard Dugdale suffers from a number of alleged fits, during which objects such as goose-dung and stones appear in his hands, although there are none near. Further, these stones are often warm to the touch. Both Thomas Dugdale, Richard Dugdale's father, and John Whalley are witness to these fits.(49)

Richard Dugdale allegedly suffers from a number of fits, possibly caused by the Devil. These fits are characterized by strange contortions of his body, "begun in the Calf of his Leg, and wrought upwards into the Chest of his Body, and then he was thrown down." As well, he engaged in strange movements during the length of these fits, as witnessed by John Walmsly, William Loond, John Fletcher, William Fort, and Joshua Thomason. After these strange contortions of the body, Richard Dugdale apparently looks "in far better liking, when out of his Fits, then ever he was before," however, Richard Dugdale allegedlly cannot recall what transpires during his fits.(51)

Richard Dugdale allegedly suffers from a number of fits, possibly caused by The Devil, characterized by "dancing and roreing hidiously." These fits are witnessed by Ann Whittaker, John Walmsly, William Livesay, John Fletcher, and Henry Page.(54-55)

Richard Dugdale allegedly suffers from a number of fits, during which time John Hindle "prickt a large pin in his Feet, and he neither stirred nor complained at all." John Fletcher was witness.(57)

Dr. Whittaker refuses to treat Richard Dugdale for his fits, "for that he concluded it to be more than a Natural Distemper."(65)

Richard Dugdale visits the minister Mr. Jolly in Lancaster, where a fit seized him while Mr. Jolly read and prayed. This fit was violence and strange, and "he raged as if the Devil had been in his bodily Shape."(72)

Richard Dugdale visits the minister, Mr. Jolly, when he is seized by a fit, and "the Devil raged in the young Man exceedingly," and discovering things by "Diabolical Means."(74)

During a fit in front of a junior minister (Anonymous 338), Richard Dugdale confesses to having a contract with the Devil, "That he might excel all others in Dancing," in order to gain the favour of a young woman at a rushbearing. Richard Dugdale allegedly could not dance before his fits seized him, but could afterward. When Richard Dugdale is not in a fit, he does not confess to having any knowledge of a contract with the Devil.(75)

Richard Dugdale is seized by a fit, during which he allegedly tells the minister Mr. Jolly "the young Man was his own." Mr. Jolly believes a spirit spoke through Richard Dugdale.(76)

Richard Dugdale confesses to seeing an apparition of the Devil while "in his Drink," and so "The Devil, in his Drink, drew him into a blind Consent, and Compact, to satisfy his curiosity, and Dancing Humour."(79)

Richard Dugdale suffers a violent fit on March 24, 1690, as he previously predicted in another fit. After this fit, "the Evil Spirit took it's leave of him." The spirit does so, by crying out, "Now Dicky, I must leave thee, and must afflict thee no more as I have done, I have troubled thee thus long by Obsessions, and also by a Combination, that never shall be discover'd as long as the World endures." This fit also occurs after Richard Dugdale's confession to a contract with the Devil, that was thought to expire after eighteen months. This was his final fit, after which he was freed.(79)

John Starchie allegedly suffers his first fit at the age of ten, a week after his sister Anne suffers her first fit, in which he is compelled to shout on the way to school. These fits become extreme, lasting 9-10 weeks.(Image 5)

NIcholas Starchie hires Edmund Hartley, reputed to be a conjurer with certain papist charms and herbs at his disposal, who alleges he can keep Anne and John Starchie from having fits. For the first year and a half of Hartley's employment, the Starchie children are quiet and seem to be well. (Image 5)

John Starchie allegedly has a fit in which he falls to bleeding when Edmund Hartley pretends he is leaving Lancashire and is setting out on his way. Nicholas Starchie has Hartley stopped and returned to Cleworth; Hartley claims that no man but him could have staunched John's bleeding. Several similar incidents follow.(Image 5)

Edmund Hartley convinces Nicholas Starchie that he is indispensible to the well-being of the Starchie children by September 1596, but is dissatisfied with the terms Starchie offers him; he sends a loud whupping noise in his anger. Starchie had first given him room and board, then promised and annual pension in writing, effective Michaels Day (September 25) of 1598. Hartley demanded a house and ground, which Starchie refused. By mid-November, the fits and strange events resumed.(Image 5)

Edmund Hartley travels with NIcholas Starchie to visit his father and is tormented all night; the next day he goes into the woods and makes a circle divided in four with a cross in each part. When finished, he fetches Starchie and attempts to get Starchie to walk the circle in his place; Starchie refuses.(Image 5)

Anne Starchie, John Starchie, Margaret Hardman, Elizabeth Hardman and Eleanor Holland are asked for testimony against Edmund Hartley by Justice of Peace Hopwood, but they are all rendered speechless whether questioned together or individually. The most they will say is that Hardman will not suffer them to speak against him.(Image 6)

Jane Ashton, a maidservant in the Starchie household, allegedly begins to bark and howl when she tries to give testimony against Edmund Hartley to Justice of the Peace Hopwood. Though Jane is prevented from speaking, others in the house recall that this is the second time she has been afflicted - she had become sick and vomited blood a year before after going into Hartley's chamber and looking in his chest.(Image 6)

Margaret Byrom travels from Cleworth to Salford with Edmund Hartley, where Hartley is made to take her before two Justice of the Peace to take her testimony against him; she is struck speechless and cast backward to the ground three times. To explain, she alleges to see a great black dog with a monstrous tail and a chain in its mouth, which runs at her and casts her into the fire, keeping her from speaking but leaving her able to use her eyes and hands. A short time later, a large black cat stared at her, knocked her down once more, and took the use of her eyes and hands. A half hour later, she is visited by an apparition in the shape of a big mouse, which knocks her down and takes her tongue, eyes and senses. (Image 7)

Margaret Byrom allegedly suffers six instances in as many weeks in which the spirit possessing her will not permit her to eat or drink. If urged to by others, the spirit causes Byrom and the food or drink to be cast to the ground together. When able to eat, she does so greedily and feels hungry no matter how much she has consumed.(Image 7)

Margaret Byrom allegedly suffers a fit in which she feels as if she is being pulled to pieces, and a stinking smoke emerges from her mouth. Her voice and the sound of her crying changes, and she reeks so badly for a day and a night that no-one can bear to come near her.(Image 7)

The Devil appears to Margaret Byrom in the shape of Edmund Hartley two nights in a row, promising her silver and gold if she takes heed what she says and speaks the truth during her forthcoming examination regarding Hartley. Thinking it's Hartley, Byrom tells him that she already has told the truth, and she will not favor him now for silver nor gold. The second night he leaves her with the words "do as thou wilt." She is troubled by fits the day before Hartley's execution, causing her to go to the morning prayer daily thereafter.(Image 7)

Nicholas Starchie consults with preachers for advice on the possessions within his household, and is eventually referred to John Darrell. Starchie writes to Darrell twice requesting help, the second time with a letter of reference from a Justice of the Peace. After the second letter, Darrell agrees to consult on the matter.(8)

John Darrell arrives at the Starchie household in the company of George More; at dinner, Margaret Hardman, Elizabeth Hardman and Eleanor Holland suffer fits in which they are thrown about. their faces disfigured and their bodies swell. One of them is heard to say, regarding Edmund Hartley's recent execution, "Do you think you can hang the Devil?"(8)

John Darrell, accompanied by George More, local pastor Mr. Dickens, and 30 others, gathers Anne Starchie, John Starchie, Margaret Hardman, Elizabeth Hardman, Eleanor Holland, Margaret Byrom and Jane Ashton in the parlor for a day of prayer and fasting; all seven have fits throughout the day and six are allegedly successfully dispossessed. At the end, the seven are extremely tormented, beating their bodies and needing to be held, crying in a supernatural manner and lying as if dead. Margaret Byrom is the first dispossessed, followed by John Starchie. Jane Ashton allegedly pretends to be dispossessed at the end of the day, but has not truly been.(10-11)

Jane Ashton allegedly suffers a howling fit the night of John Darrell and George More's arrival. Darrell declares this proof of her possession, coupled with an account of how her belly had swollen to the size of late pregnancy earlier that day.(9)

John Darrell takes accounts from Margaret Byrom, John Starchie, Anne Starchie, Eleanor Holland, Margaret Hardman and Elizabeth Hardman, asking them to describe how the Devil looked when he left them. Byrom alleges that she felt something come up from her belly to her breast and saw a dark mist emerge from her throat that left a foul smell behind, and went out the window in a flash of fire. John Starchie alleges it left him like an ill-favored hunchbacked man; Margaret Hardman says the same. Anne Starchie alleges he left like a foul ugly man with a white beard and a bulge on his breast the size of a man's head; Eleanor Hardman says she saw the same thing save the beard. Eleanor Hardman alleges it was like an urchin, who left through a tiny hole only to return in a foul shape promising gold; he threatened her when she refused and left again in the urchin shape.(11)

The Devil appears to Anne Starchie, John Starchie, Elizabeth Hardman, Margaret Hardman and Eleanor Holland in the night immediately after their dispossession, and attempts to get their permission to repossess them with gold and threats. He appears to them variously as a hunchbacked man, a man with a bulge at his neck, a bear with fire in its mouth, an ape and a dove.(11-12)

Jane Ashton is alleged to still be possessed the day after the exorcism of Margaret Byrom, John Starchie, Anne Starchie, Eleanor Holland, Margaret Hardman and Elizabeth Hardman; she is observed to be tormented, vomiting, shaking and weeping. She lays as dead for a while after John Darrell performs another exorcism on her, and rises up giving thanks for her deliverance. She claims that the Devil rose up in her throat and bid her to say that he was gone from her, promising not to hurt her any longer and to ensure that she lacked for nothing if she did. (12-13)

John Darrell alleges that the Devil returned over the next few days following the exorcisms to torment Margaret Byrom, John Starchie, Anne Starchie, Eleanor Holland, Margaret Hardman, Elizabeth Hardman, and Jane Ashton. It throws them down, deprives them of the use of their limbs, promises worldly goods and makes threats to try to get them to consent to repossession. They resist, and are not tormented further to his knowledge.(13)

The young man, Richard Dugdale, upon being seized by a number of strange fits, asks the minister Mr. Jolly to "set apart a Day of Fasting," in order to help him alleviate his fits.(2)

While at a rushbearing, a rural festival at the dedication of a church, in Whalley, Richard Dugdale allegedly offers himself to the Devil, "on condition the Devil would make him a good Dancer." He makes this deal in order to gain the favour a young woman at the festival.(2)

Upon returning to the home of his father, Thomas Dugdale, after a rushbearing in Whalley, Richard Dugdale's side is "suddenly seiz'd as with a burning pain, as if it had been whipt and stung with Nettles, or stab'd with Needles." Almost immediately afterward, "several Apparitions presented themselves, and after Vanish'd before him."(2)

Richard Dugdale allegedly saw "an Apparition of the Devil pointing at something which the said Richard had lately done," leading Mr. Jolly to assume that Richard Dugdale had formed some sort of malefic compact with the Devil.(3)

On August 1, 1688, Richard Dugdale is seized by a fit in the presence of the minister Mr. Jolly, during which time he speaks in "Latin, Greek, and other Languages very well," as well as declaring himself against "the sins of the place and time."(7)

Richard Dugdale is seized by a fit on August 13, 1688, while fasting, during which he foretells the coming of Mr. Carrington, "when he was about Two Fields off the Barn" where Richard was located.(7)

Mr. Jolly engages in a set pattern of "exercise" when helping Richard Dugdale with his fits, which are allegedly caused by the devil. This consists of preaching or reading the Bible; questioning the demoniack during fits; and praying when Richard Dugdale goes quiet during a fit. At the end of almost all of these exercises, Richard Dugdale allegedly foretold "precisely and punctually" when his next fit would be. (8)

During a fit, Richard Dugdale cried out for "Carlisle, Carlisle," and demanded to speak with Carlisle. Upon being denied by the minister Mr. Jolly, Richard Dugdale allegedly flew into a "seemingly extraordinary rage."(11)

The minister Mr. Jolly tells Richard Dugdale during one of his alleged fits caused by the Devil, that he will "never let thee alone till thou be gone from him." Richard Dugdale's face contorts upon hearing this, and as a Demoniack, "very furiously flung to and fro."(18)

Richard Dugdale is attended by seven Roman Catholic ministers during one of his alleged fits, including the reading of a paper which was thought to cure Richard Dugdale but did not. Two of these ministers fled during one of Richard Dugdale's fits; a third was "strong and old, but was thrown down, and in great danger of being kill'd by the Demoniack." Bystanders aided this minister, by pulling off Richard Dugdale "with great difficulty."(21-22)

Robert Waddington concludes that Richard Dugdale is allegedly possessed by a "Dumb and Deaf Devil," who explains that Richard Dugdale will be deaf and dumb for a month by paper to Mr. Jolly. This allegedly comes to pass.(22)

After one of his Fits, Richard Dugdale allegedly "fell upon his knees and prayed with Tears in his Eyes."(22)

Robert Waddington submits a written confession stating his witness to Richard Dugdale's alleged fits, during which time, Richard Dugdale foretells the weather, vomited stones, foretold the death of a child, and dances in a way that "surpasseth, I suppose, any Artist."(23)

During one of his fits, Satan allegedly speaks through Richard Dugdale, claiming that there was "a Parchment Contract which Dicky entred into with him."(26)

On September 3, 1689, Richard Dugdale experiences a fit while fasting, during which Satan allegedly said "that he would spare Dicky Fifty days longer, but then he would carry him to Hell."(24)

Richard Dugdale allegedly vomits a piece of paper, which when dried revealed Greek letters. It reveals that Richard Dugdale's alleged fits which are thought to be the result of a possession by the Devil are to last 600 days. At the end of this time, the paper "threatned...the Lord would plunge him in the Lake of burning."(34)

During a fit seizes that Richard Dugdale on October 22, 1689, Satan allegedly confesses that he will not drag Richard Dugdale to Hell, for Mr. Jolly delivered him. Satan advises Richard Dugdale to "thank my Tormentor as long as thou livest."(42)

A "stranger wholly unknown at the Surey," laid a hand on a lump which allegedly appeared on Richard Dugdale's body. The lump then spoke to this stranger (Anonymous 381), advising him that no "Doctor of Physick" can help Richard Dugdale, but only "Doctors of Divinity." The stranger is in fact a physician.(42)

A young man (Anonymous 407) "in a Bravado, and Defiance of the Devil," walks at night in a churchyard, where alleged the Devil greeted him "in the shape of a Black Dog with terrible Eyes." This brings such terror to the young man, "that he was never quiet in his Mind till he got into good Society."(153)

A young man (Anonymous 407) who in "Defiance of the Devil," walked at night in a graveyard, and had the Devil appear to him in the shape of a "Black Dog with terrible Eyes," goes to stay with Mr. Shepherd and Mr. Harlakenden in Colne. When the young man prays, "the Black Dog was seen by the Man as if he would have tone Mr. Harlakenden's Throat out." However, the young man feared not while praying. He "continued long in this condition," which "proved [him] a most ferious Christian," although the Devil changed his form "as a Fly or a Flea, and various shapes."(153)

Upon the death of a young man (Anonymous 407) who "in Defiance of the Devil," walked a churchyard at night, and was plagued by apparitions of the Devil for the rest of his life in the shape of "a Black Dog with terrible Eyes," or "as a Fly or a Flea and various shapes," he has "Victory over the fear of Death." This is because "this Dog or Flea made no impression upon him," such was his desire "to be dissolved."(153)

Alison Device is examined before Justice of the Peace Robert Nowell at Reade in the County of Lancaster to give evidence against her grandmother, Elizabeth Southerns.(C)

Anne Robinson gives deposition alleging that Master Thomas Lister was often heard to cry out "Iennet Preston was in the house, looke where shee is, take hold of her: for Gods sake shut the doores, and take her, shee cannot escape away. Looke about for her, and lay hold on her, for shee is in the house[.]" On his deathbed, she claims to have heard him say "Iennet Preston lyes heauie vpon me, Prestons wife lyes heauie vpon me; helpe me, helpe me."(Y2v)

James Device alleges during his examination that some time after the feast at Malking Tower, he went to see Jennet Preston with Henry Hargreives to see if she was the same woman who had come seeking help to kill Thomas Lister. They proved to be one and the same. (Y3v-Y4)