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For the diabolical discourse of Demdike and the dabblers and denizens o’ the Nick.

 

 

 

You shall all goe from hence to the Castle, from whence you came; from thence you shall bee carried

to the place of Execution for this Countie: where your bodies shall bee hanged vntill you be dead

 AND GOD HAVE MERCIE VPON YOVR SOVLES...

 

Elizabeth Sowtherns

alias Old Demdike of Malkyn Tower Who dyed before shee came to her tryall

 

Anne Whittle

alias Chattox of West Close

(hanged at Gallows Hill, Lancaster)

 

Elizabeth Deuice

Daughter of Old Demdike of Malkyn

(hanged at Gallows Hill, Lancaster)

 

Iames Deuice

Sonne of Elizabeth Deuice of Malkyn

(hanged at Gallows Hill, Lancaster)

 

Anne Readfearne

Daughter of Anne Chattox of West Close

(hanged at Gallows Hill, Lancaster)

 

Alice Nutter

of the Roughlea

(hanged at Gallows Hill, Lancaster)

 

Katherine Hewytte

of Colne

(hanged at Gallows Hill, Lancaster)

 

Iohn Bulcocke

of Mossende

(hanged at Gallows Hill, Lancaster)

 

Jane Bulcocke

of Mossende

(hanged at Gallows Hill, Lancaster)

 

Alizon Deuice

Daughter of Elizabeth Deuice of Malkyn

(hanged at Gallows Hill, Lancaster)

 

Isabell Robey

of Windle

(hanged at Gallows Hill, Lancaster)

 

Jennet Preston

of Gisburn 

(hanged at York)

 

Margaret Pearson

of Padiham

(not hanged, found guilty of Witchcraft, but not murder, sentenced to one year in gaol) 

 

 
 

 

In the year of our Lord, sixteen-hundred and twelve
twenty days into August, thirty miles from the hill
ten witches stand at Lancaster Gate
where the hangman and the gallows wait

 

Gods have mercy indeed...