The Prisoner being examined by the Court whether shee could helpe the poore Pedler to his former strength and health, she answered she could not, and so did many of the rest of the Witches: But shee, with others, affirmed, That if old _Dembdike_ had liued, shee could and would haue helped him out of that great miserie, which so long he hath endured for so small an offence, as you haue heard.
These things being thus openly published against her, and she knowing her selfe to be guiltie of euery particular, humbly acknowledged the Indictment against her to be true, and that she was guiltie of the offence therein contained, and that she had iustly deserued death for that and many other such like: whereupon she was carried away, vntill she should come to the Barre to receiue her judgement of death.
Oh, who was present at this lamentable spectacle, that was not moued with pitie to behold it!
Hereupon my Lord _Gerard_, Sir _Richard Houghton_, and others, who much pitied the poore Pedler, At the entreatie of my Lord _Bromley_ the Iudge, promised some present course should be taken for his reliefe and maintenance; being now discharged and sent away.
But here I may not let her passe; for that I find some thing more vpon Record to charge her withall: for although she were but a young Witch, of a yeares standing, and thereunto induced by _Dembdike_ her Grand-mother, as you haue formerly heard, yet she was spotted with innocent bloud among the rest: for in one part of the Examination of _Iames Deuice_, her brother, he deposeth as followeth, _viz._
_The Examination of_ IAMES DEVICE, _brother to the said_ ALIZON DEVICE: _Taken vpon Oath_
ROGER NOWEL _Esquire, aforesaid, the thirtieth day of March, 1612._
_Iames Deuice_, of the Forrest of Pendle, in the Countie of Lancaster, Labourer, sworne and examined, sayth, That about _Saint Peters_ day last one _Henry Bulcock_ came to the house of _Elizabeth Sothernes_, alias _Dembdike_, Grand-mother to this Examinate, and said, That the said _Alizon Deuice_ had bewitched a Child of his, and desired her, that shee would goe with him to his house: which accordingly shee did: and thereupon shee the said _Alizon_ fell downe on her knees, and asked the said _Bulcock_ forgiuenesse; and confessed to him, that she had bewitched the said Child, as this Examinate heard his said sister confesse vnto him this Examinate.