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Bromley, Knights, Barons of his Majesties Court of Exchequer, and Justices of Assize, Oyer and Terminer, and generall Gaole deliverie in the Circuit of the North Parts. Together with the Arraignment and Triall of Jennett Preston, at the Assizes holden at the castle of Yorke, the seven-and-twentieth day of Julie last past, with her execution for the murther of Master Lister, by witchcraft.
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The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster; with the Arraignment and Triall of Nineteene notorious Witches, and the Assizes and generall Gaole deliverie, holden at the Castle of Lancaster, upon Munday the seventeenth of August last, 1612, before Sir James Altham, and Sir Edward
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During the trial of the witches, at the judges' request he compiled an account of the proceedings, which Bromley corrected before publication. It appeared in the following year under the title
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at Lancaster on 12 August. He was subsequently granted (17 April 1618) the office of collector of forfeitures on the laws concerning sewers.
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In the dedication to Sir Thomas Knyvet, Potts speaks of it as the first fruit of his learning. The work was reprinted by Sir
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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of James I, 1611–1618
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Hand-book to the Popular, Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain
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Gowing, Laura (2004). "Pendle witches Lancashire witches (act. 1612)".
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The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
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The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
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Clerk of the court in the Pendle witch trial (fl. 1612–1618)
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Somers Tracts: A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts
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Potts's Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster
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Index

Thomas Knyvet, Lord Knyvet of Escrick
Chancery Lane
James Altham
Edward Bromley
barons of the exchequer
Lancashire witches

The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
Walter Scott
Somers Tracts
Chetham Society
James Crossley
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Harrison Ainsworth
Lancashire Witches




The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest
Potts's Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/67763
UK public library membership
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of James I, 1611–1618
Hand-book to the Popular, Poetical and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Vol. 3
public domain

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