At this point, Alice Nutter, mistress of Roughlee Hall appeared. She was a wealthy woman, "of good temper, free from malice and envy." She was also one of the bomb-plotters, young Jennet declared. Mrs. Nutter went to jail as well. She was charged, along with Mrs. Sowthern and her daughter Elizabeth, of the murder by witchcraft of Henry Mitton, and a powerful motive was established: she had done it because Mitton had rebuffed Mrs. Sowthern's request for a penny.

Anne was acquitted of the murder of Robert Nutter (Jennet being not fully competent, the authorities may have felt, to offer convincing testimony about a murder that occurred some nine years before she was born). The mob howled, so Anne was quickly arrested again, this time for the murder of Christopher Nutter (Robert's father).

The final judgment: Elizabeth Sowthern, died in jail before she could be hanged; Alison and James Device, hanged; Anne Whittle and Anne Redfearne, hanged; Alice Nutter, hanged; three others, hanged. In England, only high treason, a crime against the king, was punishable by burning. Witchcraft, considered only a crime against God, carried the lighter penalty of hanging.

And young Jennet Device? Twenty-two years after the Lancashire Witch Trials, she and several others were accused of witchcraft by little Edmund Robinson, who told a gruesome tale of a Sabbat he had been taken to. The women were carted off to London to be examined for witchmarks by the King's own doctor.

He found nothing, and the women were pardoned. As for Edmund, he admitted he had not been to a Sabbat after all; he had been stealing plums and needed an alibi.

Convicted in the Lancashire Witch Trials of the offense, but not the felony, of witchcraft (she killed a horse, not a human) Margaret Pearson was sentenced to "stand upon the Pillarie in open Market at Clitheroe, Paddiham, Whalley, and Lancaster, foure Market dayes, with a Paper upon your head, in great Letters, declaring your offence," then to spend a year in jail.