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[00:01.21] | CHAPTER 4 TRUTH AND LIES |
[00:06.69] | On the twenty-seventh day of April, |
[00:09.57] | the guards took my mother and James to Lancaster Castle, |
[00:15.49] | and my life at Read Hall began. |
[00:20.17] | Suddenly,it was spring. |
[00:23.09] | The sky was blue and there were beautiful flowers on the hills. |
[00:29.66] | From Read Hall,Pendle Hill looked different : |
[00:34.64] | it looked smaller, and it was not so important in my life. |
[00:41.79] | Sometimes I walked along Sabden Brook to Sabden, |
[00:47.62] | and then to Newchurch, |
[00:49.71] | and I felt happy to be near Pendle Hill again. |
[00:55.26] | But I never visited Malkin Tower again. |
[01:01.22] | Spring changed into summer, |
[01:04.47] | and in August I went to Lancaster with Mr Nowell. |
[01:09.89] | Lancaster was thirty miles from Read Hall, |
[01:14.43] | and I got very tired because I sat on a horse for hours. |
[01:21.23] | It was a big, noisy town. |
[01:24.70] | I never saw so many people before in my life and I felt afraid. |
[01:33.85] | The trial of the witches of Pendle |
[01:36.99] | began at Lancaster Castle on the eighteenth day of August, |
[01:42.92] | and the judge was an important man from London. |
[01:48.19] | Judge Bromley listened to many people on that day, |
[01:53.11] | because there were a lot of witches from Lancashire in the prison. |
[01:59.14] | Old Demdike was not there because she died in May, |
[02:04.40] | before the judge arrived. |
[02:09.16] | I waited with Mr Nowell' s servant, |
[02:12.98] | and when a guard called my name, |
[02:16.44] | I went through a big door and saw the judge behind a table. |
[02:23.13] | Judge Bromley was rich and important, |
[02:28.42] | but his eyes were cold. |
[02:32.54] | Suddenly, I saw my mother! |
[02:37.30] | She was dirty and very thin. |
[02:42.61] | When she saw me,her face went red. |
[02:48.55] | My hair was clean now, |
[02:50.78] | and I wore shoes and an expensive dress. |
[02:56.23] | I saw my mother' s eyes: |
[02:59.98] | she hated me! |
[03:03.87] | 'Are you a witch?'Judge Bromley asked my mother. |
[03:10.44] | 'No, I 'm not,'my mother answered angrily. |
[03:16.41] | 'Did you kill Jack Robinson,of Barley village?' |
[03:22.86] | ' No, I did not.' |
[03:26.42] | 'Jennet Device is here,' a voice said quietly. |
[03:32.14] | It was Mr Nowell. |
[03:34.97] | 'She can tell us the truth about her mother.' |
[03:41.05] | For a minute, my mother did not move. |
[03:46.77] | Then she ran across the room and shouted at me. |
[03:52.29] | 'You know nothing, you bad child! |
[03:56.86] | And I'm your mother!Don' t forget that!' |
[04:02.68] | The guards ran after my mother and pulled her to the floor. |
[04:08.18] | ' I'm no witch!'my mother shouted. |
[04:12.98] | ' It' s all lies! Jennet,you' re a witch |
[04:18.62] | a child of the Devil! |
[04:21.25] | You' re my daughter,and I know!' |
[04:28.30] | I was afraid and I put my hands over my eyes. |
[04:34.10] | I didn't want to see my mother' s ugly face. |
[04:39.62] | The guards pulled my mother out of the room and the noise stopped. |
[04:46.72] | 'Jennet Device,'the judge said. |
[04:50.80] | 'Tell us the truth about your mother.' |
[04:57.04] | Roger Nowell lifted me up |
[05:00.49] | and put me on a table in front of the judge. |
[05:05.58] | 'My mother is a witch,' |
[05:08.75] | I began.'She has a friend, |
[05:13.09] | a dog called Ball. |
[05:16.73] | When she wants to kill somebody, |
[05:19.11] | she tells Ball…'I talked and talked; |
[05:26.26] | I told the judge everything. |
[05:31.83] | Judge Bromley listened carefully. |
[05:35.94] | 'My child,is this the truth?' |
[05:40.55] | 'Yes,'I answered. |
[05:43.88] | 'I'm telling you the truth.' |
[05:49.45] | The guards brought my mother back into the room again. |
[05:53.89] | Her face looked tired and her eyes were red. |
[06:00.05] | 'Elizabeth Device,your daughter told us about your dog,Ball. |
[06:07.68] | Your son, too, |
[06:09.54] | told us about the clay pictures. |
[06:13.20] | We know everything.' |
[06:18.95] | My mother said nothing. |
[06:22.02] | She didn't look at the judge and she didn' t look at me. |
[06:29.36] | Next, the guards brought my brother James into the room. |
[06:35.93] | When I saw James,I wanted to cry. |
[06:41.22] | James was thin and dirty and his hair was very long. |
[06:49.97] | He looked at the judge and at all the rich |
[06:53.26] | and important men in the room and he began to cry. |
[07:00.20] | Then he sat down on the floor. |
[07:03.87] | 'Stand up,James Device,' |
[07:06.56] | Judge Bromley said. |
[07:09.95] | The guards pulled James up, |
[07:12.71] | but he fell to the floor again. |
[07:15.97] | 'You killed Mr Duckworth,' |
[07:19.30] | Judge Bromley said. |
[07:22.00] | 'I wanted a shirt,'James cried. |
[07:28.60] | 'Is your brother a witch?' |
[07:31.43] | Judge Bromley asked me. |
[07:35.00] | ' Yes,' I said. My brother sat on the floor, |
[07:41.30] | his mouth open. |
[07:44.63] | He looked at me,but he didn't know me. |
[07:50.51] | I was clean,and fat because of all the good food at Read Hall. |
[07:57.23] | 'James told me about his friend,Dandy,' |
[08:01.61] | I began.'Dandy was the Devil and-' |
[08:05.70] | James heard the name Dandy, |
[08:08.62] | and he began to cry again. |
[08:11.60] | 'I want Dandy!I want to go home!' |
[08:17.97] | The guards pulled him up from the floor |
[08:20.92] | and took him out of the room. |
[08:23.80] | I never saw my brother again. |
[08:30.55] | When the guards brought my sister Alizon |
[08:34.74] | in front of the judge, I said nothing. |
[08:38.49] | John Law,the pedlar,came into the room. |
[08:44.13] | He was a thin man now. |
[08:47.06] | He walked slowly and he talked slowly and his face looked ill. |
[08:56.35] | He told the judge about that day near Colne |
[08:59.68] | when Alizon cursed him and her dog ran after him. |
[09:05.55] | 'I'm sorry!' Alizon said. |
[09:08.91] | ' I was angry with you that day, |
[09:10.76] | but I'm sorry now.' |
[09:14.00] | Alizon 's eyes were dark and afraid, |
[09:19.36] | but she had no friends in that room |
[09:22.56] | and nobody wanted to listen to her. |
[09:27.65] | Then Mr Nowell took me out |
[09:31.05] | and I waited with his servant in a different room. |
[09:36.22] | An hour later, |
[09:38.32] | there was the noise of many people shouting and crying. |
[09:43.54] | The servant smiled. |
[09:46.44] | 'The trial is finished,' |
[09:48.89] | he said 'You' re a good child Jennet. |
[09:52.81] | You told the judge the truth about the Witches.' |
[09:58.66] | Mr Nowell took me home to Read Hall. |
[10:03.19] | And on the twentieth day of August 1612, |
[10:08.27] | the guards took my mother, |
[10:10.96] | my sister and my brother out of prison , |
[10:16.89] | and hanged them in front of Lancaster Castle. |
[10:24.48] | And so I lost my family. |
[10:31.99] | When I was a child, |
[10:34.64] | I wanted to be happy. |
[10:38.08] | I wanted to be warm, |
[10:40.39] | to wear shoes, to eat good food. |
[10:45.43] | I wanted someone to take care of me.That's all. |
[10:51.74] | My mother gave me nothing. |
[10:54.71] | She gave me no love. |
[10:57.28] | She never took care of me. |
[11:00.72] | Because my mother was a witch, |
[11:03.96] | my father ran away and I never knew him. |
[11:10.63] | My father was a rich man without a name, |
[11:14.54] | and I lived hungry and cold with a witch. |
[11:22.44] | And so I told Judge Bromley the truth about my family. |
[11:28.99] | Was I wrong?I don't know. |
[11:35.94] | I was happy for years at Read Hall. |
[11:39.55] | For twenty-one years, I forgot my family. |
[11:44.62] | I learned to cook for the Nowell family; |
[11:47.99] | I worked many hours every day but I was warm |
[11:52.46] | and I ate good food. |
[11:55.86] | Every Sunday,in my best dress,I went to church; |
[12:02.24] | every summer I walked over Pendle Hill. |
[12:07.66] | I never thought about my family, |
[12:10.63] | because I was happy at Read Hall. |
[12:16.65] | In August 1612, |
[12:20.29] | the guards hanged my family in front of Lancaster Castle. |
[12:26.22] | But their dead faces waited for me there; |
[12:32.09] | and a year ago, in 1633, |
[12:37.19] | when the guards put me in the prison in Lancaster Castle, |
[12:42.33] | I met them again. |
[12:46.22] | Day after day, I see their ugly, |
[12:50.07] | dead faces and hear their cold, angry voices. |
[12:58.85] | I think of them all the time. |
[13:04.88] | God is with me here,in prison. |
[13:07.53] | I believe that. |
[13:10.21] | But my dead family is with me too. |
[13:16.46] | Mr Webster,from the church at Kildwick, |
[13:22.06] | visits me again. |
[13:23.37] | His blue eyes are tired,but he smiles at me. |
[13:30.58] | 'Edmund Robinson and his father told the truth in London, ' |
[13:36.67] | he says quietly. |
[13:39.16] | ' The child told lies about you because he was afraid of his father. |
[13:45.43] | He wanted his father to love him.' |
[13:50.50] | I say nothing. Mr Webster wants to be kind, |
[13:57.44] | but he cannot help me. |
[14:00.82] | Mr Nowell cannot help me because he is dead. |
[14:07.11] | Edmund Robinson is only a child; |
[14:11.05] | he tells lies one day, |
[14:13.42] | and the truth the next day. |
[14:17.16] | but the truth cannot help me. |
[14:21.14] | What can I do against hate ,and lies? |
[14:27.99] | When Mr Nowell was alive, |
[14:30.72] | the Villagers didn't talk about me. |
[14:34.52] | But when Mr Nowell died,the lies began. |
[14:40.49] | The villagers are all afraid of me |
[14:44.06] | because my name is Device. |
[14:47.18] | They hate me |
[14:49.71] | because my name is Device. |
[14:53.92] | They say I am a witch |
[14:57.38] | because my name is Device. |
[15:02.22] | I come from a family of witches, |
[15:05.46] | but I am not a witch. |
[15:09.73] | Nobody died because I cursed them. |
[15:13.40] | I never made clay pictures, |
[15:17.13] | I never had a cat or dog. |
[15:21.81] | I only wanted to live quietly at Read Hall |
[15:27.14] | and watch the changing skies over Pendle Hill. |
[15:34.30] | When I was a child, |
[15:36.33] | I was always cold and hungry, |
[15:40.18] | and I hated my family because they were witches. |
[15:45.45] | In 1612, I told the truth, |
[15:50.19] | and the truth killed my family. |
[15:54.62] | Now, twenty-two years later, |
[15:59.39] | lies are going to kill me, |
[16:02.48] | here in Lancaster Castle, |
[16:06.64] | and I am cold and hungry again. |
[16:13.89] | Mr Webster gives me bread, |
[16:17.39] | and I go back into the prison. |
[16:20.44] | I can never go back to Read Hall; |
[16:23.74] | I know that now. |
[16:26.79] | I must stay here in Lancaster Castle, |
[16:30.60] | with my dead family. |
[16:34.30] | They are watching me, |
[16:36.64] | and waiting for me. |
[16:39.69] | I can never be free of them. |
[16:44.97] | This is my true story; |
[16:47.40] | and I want to finish it now. |
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[00:01.21] | CHAPTER 4 TRUTH AND LIES |
[00:06.69] | On the twentyseventh day of April, |
[00:09.57] | the guards took my mother and James to Lancaster Castle, |
[00:15.49] | and my life at Read Hall began |
[00:20.17] | Suddenly, it was spring |
[00:23.09] | The sky was blue and there were beautiful flowers on the hills |
[00:29.66] | From Read Hall, Pendle Hill looked different : |
[00:34.64] | it looked smaller, and it was not so important in my life |
[00:41.79] | Sometimes I walked along Sabden Brook to Sabden, |
[00:47.62] | and then to Newchurch, |
[00:49.71] | and I felt happy to be near Pendle Hill again |
[00:55.26] | But I never visited Malkin Tower again |
[01:01.22] | Spring changed into summer, |
[01:04.47] | and in August I went to Lancaster with Mr Nowell |
[01:09.89] | Lancaster was thirty miles from Read Hall, |
[01:14.43] | and I got very tired because I sat on a horse for hours |
[01:21.23] | It was a big, noisy town |
[01:24.70] | I never saw so many people before in my life and I felt afraid |
[01:33.85] | The trial of the witches of Pendle |
[01:36.99] | began at Lancaster Castle on the eighteenth day of August, |
[01:42.92] | and the judge was an important man from London |
[01:48.19] | Judge Bromley listened to many people on that day, |
[01:53.11] | because there were a lot of witches from Lancashire in the prison |
[01:59.14] | Old Demdike was not there because she died in May, |
[02:04.40] | before the judge arrived |
[02:09.16] | I waited with Mr Nowell' s servant, |
[02:12.98] | and when a guard called my name, |
[02:16.44] | I went through a big door and saw the judge behind a table |
[02:23.13] | Judge Bromley was rich and important, |
[02:28.42] | but his eyes were cold |
[02:32.54] | Suddenly, I saw my mother! |
[02:37.30] | She was dirty and very thin |
[02:42.61] | When she saw me, her face went red |
[02:48.55] | My hair was clean now, |
[02:50.78] | and I wore shoes and an expensive dress |
[02:56.23] | I saw my mother' s eyes: |
[02:59.98] | she hated me! |
[03:03.87] | ' Are you a witch?' Judge Bromley asked my mother |
[03:10.44] | ' No, I ' m not,' my mother answered angrily |
[03:16.41] | ' Did you kill Jack Robinson, of Barley village?' |
[03:22.86] | ' No, I did not' |
[03:26.42] | ' Jennet Device is here,' a voice said quietly |
[03:32.14] | It was Mr Nowell |
[03:34.97] | ' She can tell us the truth about her mother' |
[03:41.05] | For a minute, my mother did not move |
[03:46.77] | Then she ran across the room and shouted at me |
[03:52.29] | ' You know nothing, you bad child! |
[03:56.86] | And I' m your mother! Don' t forget that!' |
[04:02.68] | The guards ran after my mother and pulled her to the floor |
[04:08.18] | ' I' m no witch!' my mother shouted |
[04:12.98] | ' It' s all lies! Jennet, you' re a witch |
[04:18.62] | a child of the Devil! |
[04:21.25] | You' re my daughter, and I know!' |
[04:28.30] | I was afraid and I put my hands over my eyes |
[04:34.10] | I didn' t want to see my mother' s ugly face |
[04:39.62] | The guards pulled my mother out of the room and the noise stopped |
[04:46.72] | ' Jennet Device,' the judge said |
[04:50.80] | ' Tell us the truth about your mother' |
[04:57.04] | Roger Nowell lifted me up |
[05:00.49] | and put me on a table in front of the judge |
[05:05.58] | ' My mother is a witch,' |
[05:08.75] | I began' She has a friend, |
[05:13.09] | a dog called Ball |
[05:16.73] | When she wants to kill somebody, |
[05:19.11] | she tells Ball' I talked and talked |
[05:26.26] | I told the judge everything |
[05:31.83] | Judge Bromley listened carefully |
[05:35.94] | ' My child, is this the truth?' |
[05:40.55] | ' Yes,' I answered |
[05:43.88] | ' I' m telling you the truth' |
[05:49.45] | The guards brought my mother back into the room again |
[05:53.89] | Her face looked tired and her eyes were red |
[06:00.05] | ' Elizabeth Device, your daughter told us about your dog, Ball |
[06:07.68] | Your son, too, |
[06:09.54] | told us about the clay pictures |
[06:13.20] | We know everything' |
[06:18.95] | My mother said nothing |
[06:22.02] | She didn' t look at the judge and she didn' t look at me |
[06:29.36] | Next, the guards brought my brother James into the room |
[06:35.93] | When I saw James, I wanted to cry |
[06:41.22] | James was thin and dirty and his hair was very long |
[06:49.97] | He looked at the judge and at all the rich |
[06:53.26] | and important men in the room and he began to cry |
[07:00.20] | Then he sat down on the floor |
[07:03.87] | ' Stand up, James Device,' |
[07:06.56] | Judge Bromley said |
[07:09.95] | The guards pulled James up, |
[07:12.71] | but he fell to the floor again |
[07:15.97] | ' You killed Mr Duckworth,' |
[07:19.30] | Judge Bromley said |
[07:22.00] | ' I wanted a shirt,' James cried |
[07:28.60] | ' Is your brother a witch?' |
[07:31.43] | Judge Bromley asked me |
[07:35.00] | ' Yes,' I said My brother sat on the floor, |
[07:41.30] | his mouth open |
[07:44.63] | He looked at me, but he didn' t know me |
[07:50.51] | I was clean, and fat because of all the good food at Read Hall |
[07:57.23] | ' James told me about his friend, Dandy,' |
[08:01.61] | I began' Dandy was the Devil and' |
[08:05.70] | James heard the name Dandy, |
[08:08.62] | and he began to cry again |
[08:11.60] | ' I want Dandy! I want to go home!' |
[08:17.97] | The guards pulled him up from the floor |
[08:20.92] | and took him out of the room |
[08:23.80] | I never saw my brother again |
[08:30.55] | When the guards brought my sister Alizon |
[08:34.74] | in front of the judge, I said nothing |
[08:38.49] | John Law, the pedlar, came into the room. |
[08:44.13] | He was a thin man now |
[08:47.06] | He walked slowly and he talked slowly and his face looked ill. |
[08:56.35] | He told the judge about that day near Colne |
[08:59.68] | when Alizon cursed him and her dog ran after him |
[09:05.55] | ' I' m sorry!' Alizon said |
[09:08.91] | ' I was angry with you that day, |
[09:10.76] | but I' m sorry now' |
[09:14.00] | Alizon ' s eyes were dark and afraid, |
[09:19.36] | but she had no friends in that room |
[09:22.56] | and nobody wanted to listen to her |
[09:27.65] | Then Mr Nowell took me out |
[09:31.05] | and I waited with his servant in a different room |
[09:36.22] | An hour later, |
[09:38.32] | there was the noise of many people shouting and crying |
[09:43.54] | The servant smiled |
[09:46.44] | ' The trial is finished,' |
[09:48.89] | he said ' You' re a good child Jennet |
[09:52.81] | You told the judge the truth about the Witches' |
[09:58.66] | Mr Nowell took me home to Read Hall |
[10:03.19] | And on the twentieth day of August 1612, |
[10:08.27] | the guards took my mother, |
[10:10.96] | my sister and my brother out of prison , |
[10:16.89] | and hanged them in front of Lancaster Castle |
[10:24.48] | And so I lost my family |
[10:31.99] | When I was a child, |
[10:34.64] | I wanted to be happy |
[10:38.08] | I wanted to be warm, |
[10:40.39] | to wear shoes, to eat good food |
[10:45.43] | I wanted someone to take care of me That' s all |
[10:51.74] | My mother gave me nothing |
[10:54.71] | She gave me no love |
[10:57.28] | She never took care of me |
[11:00.72] | Because my mother was a witch, |
[11:03.96] | my father ran away and I never knew him |
[11:10.63] | My father was a rich man without a name, |
[11:14.54] | and I lived hungry and cold with a witch |
[11:22.44] | And so I told Judge Bromley the truth about my family |
[11:28.99] | Was I wrong? I don' t know |
[11:35.94] | I was happy for years at Read Hall |
[11:39.55] | For twentyone years, I forgot my family. |
[11:44.62] | I learned to cook for the Nowell family |
[11:47.99] | I worked many hours every day but I was warm |
[11:52.46] | and I ate good food |
[11:55.86] | Every Sunday, in my best dress, I went to church |
[12:02.24] | every summer I walked over Pendle Hill |
[12:07.66] | I never thought about my family, |
[12:10.63] | because I was happy at Read Hall |
[12:16.65] | In August 1612, |
[12:20.29] | the guards hanged my family in front of Lancaster Castle |
[12:26.22] | But their dead faces waited for me there |
[12:32.09] | and a year ago, in 1633, |
[12:37.19] | when the guards put me in the prison in Lancaster Castle, |
[12:42.33] | I met them again |
[12:46.22] | Day after day, I see their ugly, |
[12:50.07] | dead faces and hear their cold, angry voices |
[12:58.85] | I think of them all the time |
[13:04.88] | God is with me here, in prison |
[13:07.53] | I believe that |
[13:10.21] | But my dead family is with me too |
[13:16.46] | Mr Webster, from the church at Kildwick, |
[13:22.06] | visits me again |
[13:23.37] | His blue eyes are tired, but he smiles at me |
[13:30.58] | ' Edmund Robinson and his father told the truth in London, ' |
[13:36.67] | he says quietly |
[13:39.16] | ' The child told lies about you because he was afraid of his father |
[13:45.43] | He wanted his father to love him' |
[13:50.50] | I say nothing Mr Webster wants to be kind, |
[13:57.44] | but he cannot help me |
[14:00.82] | Mr Nowell cannot help me because he is dead |
[14:07.11] | Edmund Robinson is only a child |
[14:11.05] | he tells lies one day, |
[14:13.42] | and the truth the next day |
[14:17.16] | but the truth cannot help me |
[14:21.14] | What can I do against hate , and lies? |
[14:27.99] | When Mr Nowell was alive, |
[14:30.72] | the Villagers didn' t talk about me |
[14:34.52] | But when Mr Nowell died, the lies began |
[14:40.49] | The villagers are all afraid of me |
[14:44.06] | because my name is Device |
[14:47.18] | They hate me |
[14:49.71] | because my name is Device |
[14:53.92] | They say I am a witch |
[14:57.38] | because my name is Device |
[15:02.22] | I come from a family of witches, |
[15:05.46] | but I am not a witch |
[15:09.73] | Nobody died because I cursed them |
[15:13.40] | I never made clay pictures, |
[15:17.13] | I never had a cat or dog |
[15:21.81] | I only wanted to live quietly at Read Hall |
[15:27.14] | and watch the changing skies over Pendle Hill |
[15:34.30] | When I was a child, |
[15:36.33] | I was always cold and hungry, |
[15:40.18] | and I hated my family because they were witches |
[15:45.45] | In 1612, I told the truth, |
[15:50.19] | and the truth killed my family |
[15:54.62] | Now, twenty two years later, |
[15:59.39] | lies are going to kill me, |
[16:02.48] | here in Lancaster Castle, |
[16:06.64] | and I am cold and hungry again |
[16:13.89] | Mr Webster gives me bread, |
[16:17.39] | and I go back into the prison |
[16:20.44] | I can never go back to Read Hall |
[16:23.74] | I know that now |
[16:26.79] | I must stay here in Lancaster Castle, |
[16:30.60] | with my dead family |
[16:34.30] | They are watching me, |
[16:36.64] | and waiting for me |
[16:39.69] | I can never be free of them |
[16:44.97] | This is my true story |
[16:47.40] | and I want to finish it now |
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[00:01.21] | CHAPTER 4 TRUTH AND LIES |
[00:06.69] | On the twentyseventh day of April, |
[00:09.57] | the guards took my mother and James to Lancaster Castle, |
[00:15.49] | and my life at Read Hall began |
[00:20.17] | Suddenly, it was spring |
[00:23.09] | The sky was blue and there were beautiful flowers on the hills |
[00:29.66] | From Read Hall, Pendle Hill looked different : |
[00:34.64] | it looked smaller, and it was not so important in my life |
[00:41.79] | Sometimes I walked along Sabden Brook to Sabden, |
[00:47.62] | and then to Newchurch, |
[00:49.71] | and I felt happy to be near Pendle Hill again |
[00:55.26] | But I never visited Malkin Tower again |
[01:01.22] | Spring changed into summer, |
[01:04.47] | and in August I went to Lancaster with Mr Nowell |
[01:09.89] | Lancaster was thirty miles from Read Hall, |
[01:14.43] | and I got very tired because I sat on a horse for hours |
[01:21.23] | It was a big, noisy town |
[01:24.70] | I never saw so many people before in my life and I felt afraid |
[01:33.85] | The trial of the witches of Pendle |
[01:36.99] | began at Lancaster Castle on the eighteenth day of August, |
[01:42.92] | and the judge was an important man from London |
[01:48.19] | Judge Bromley listened to many people on that day, |
[01:53.11] | because there were a lot of witches from Lancashire in the prison |
[01:59.14] | Old Demdike was not there because she died in May, |
[02:04.40] | before the judge arrived |
[02:09.16] | I waited with Mr Nowell' s servant, |
[02:12.98] | and when a guard called my name, |
[02:16.44] | I went through a big door and saw the judge behind a table |
[02:23.13] | Judge Bromley was rich and important, |
[02:28.42] | but his eyes were cold |
[02:32.54] | Suddenly, I saw my mother! |
[02:37.30] | She was dirty and very thin |
[02:42.61] | When she saw me, her face went red |
[02:48.55] | My hair was clean now, |
[02:50.78] | and I wore shoes and an expensive dress |
[02:56.23] | I saw my mother' s eyes: |
[02:59.98] | she hated me! |
[03:03.87] | ' Are you a witch?' Judge Bromley asked my mother |
[03:10.44] | ' No, I ' m not,' my mother answered angrily |
[03:16.41] | ' Did you kill Jack Robinson, of Barley village?' |
[03:22.86] | ' No, I did not' |
[03:26.42] | ' Jennet Device is here,' a voice said quietly |
[03:32.14] | It was Mr Nowell |
[03:34.97] | ' She can tell us the truth about her mother' |
[03:41.05] | For a minute, my mother did not move |
[03:46.77] | Then she ran across the room and shouted at me |
[03:52.29] | ' You know nothing, you bad child! |
[03:56.86] | And I' m your mother! Don' t forget that!' |
[04:02.68] | The guards ran after my mother and pulled her to the floor |
[04:08.18] | ' I' m no witch!' my mother shouted |
[04:12.98] | ' It' s all lies! Jennet, you' re a witch |
[04:18.62] | a child of the Devil! |
[04:21.25] | You' re my daughter, and I know!' |
[04:28.30] | I was afraid and I put my hands over my eyes |
[04:34.10] | I didn' t want to see my mother' s ugly face |
[04:39.62] | The guards pulled my mother out of the room and the noise stopped |
[04:46.72] | ' Jennet Device,' the judge said |
[04:50.80] | ' Tell us the truth about your mother' |
[04:57.04] | Roger Nowell lifted me up |
[05:00.49] | and put me on a table in front of the judge |
[05:05.58] | ' My mother is a witch,' |
[05:08.75] | I began' She has a friend, |
[05:13.09] | a dog called Ball |
[05:16.73] | When she wants to kill somebody, |
[05:19.11] | she tells Ball' I talked and talked |
[05:26.26] | I told the judge everything |
[05:31.83] | Judge Bromley listened carefully |
[05:35.94] | ' My child, is this the truth?' |
[05:40.55] | ' Yes,' I answered |
[05:43.88] | ' I' m telling you the truth' |
[05:49.45] | The guards brought my mother back into the room again |
[05:53.89] | Her face looked tired and her eyes were red |
[06:00.05] | ' Elizabeth Device, your daughter told us about your dog, Ball |
[06:07.68] | Your son, too, |
[06:09.54] | told us about the clay pictures |
[06:13.20] | We know everything' |
[06:18.95] | My mother said nothing |
[06:22.02] | She didn' t look at the judge and she didn' t look at me |
[06:29.36] | Next, the guards brought my brother James into the room |
[06:35.93] | When I saw James, I wanted to cry |
[06:41.22] | James was thin and dirty and his hair was very long |
[06:49.97] | He looked at the judge and at all the rich |
[06:53.26] | and important men in the room and he began to cry |
[07:00.20] | Then he sat down on the floor |
[07:03.87] | ' Stand up, James Device,' |
[07:06.56] | Judge Bromley said |
[07:09.95] | The guards pulled James up, |
[07:12.71] | but he fell to the floor again |
[07:15.97] | ' You killed Mr Duckworth,' |
[07:19.30] | Judge Bromley said |
[07:22.00] | ' I wanted a shirt,' James cried |
[07:28.60] | ' Is your brother a witch?' |
[07:31.43] | Judge Bromley asked me |
[07:35.00] | ' Yes,' I said My brother sat on the floor, |
[07:41.30] | his mouth open |
[07:44.63] | He looked at me, but he didn' t know me |
[07:50.51] | I was clean, and fat because of all the good food at Read Hall |
[07:57.23] | ' James told me about his friend, Dandy,' |
[08:01.61] | I began' Dandy was the Devil and' |
[08:05.70] | James heard the name Dandy, |
[08:08.62] | and he began to cry again |
[08:11.60] | ' I want Dandy! I want to go home!' |
[08:17.97] | The guards pulled him up from the floor |
[08:20.92] | and took him out of the room |
[08:23.80] | I never saw my brother again |
[08:30.55] | When the guards brought my sister Alizon |
[08:34.74] | in front of the judge, I said nothing |
[08:38.49] | John Law, the pedlar, came into the room. |
[08:44.13] | He was a thin man now |
[08:47.06] | He walked slowly and he talked slowly and his face looked ill. |
[08:56.35] | He told the judge about that day near Colne |
[08:59.68] | when Alizon cursed him and her dog ran after him |
[09:05.55] | ' I' m sorry!' Alizon said |
[09:08.91] | ' I was angry with you that day, |
[09:10.76] | but I' m sorry now' |
[09:14.00] | Alizon ' s eyes were dark and afraid, |
[09:19.36] | but she had no friends in that room |
[09:22.56] | and nobody wanted to listen to her |
[09:27.65] | Then Mr Nowell took me out |
[09:31.05] | and I waited with his servant in a different room |
[09:36.22] | An hour later, |
[09:38.32] | there was the noise of many people shouting and crying |
[09:43.54] | The servant smiled |
[09:46.44] | ' The trial is finished,' |
[09:48.89] | he said ' You' re a good child Jennet |
[09:52.81] | You told the judge the truth about the Witches' |
[09:58.66] | Mr Nowell took me home to Read Hall |
[10:03.19] | And on the twentieth day of August 1612, |
[10:08.27] | the guards took my mother, |
[10:10.96] | my sister and my brother out of prison , |
[10:16.89] | and hanged them in front of Lancaster Castle |
[10:24.48] | And so I lost my family |
[10:31.99] | When I was a child, |
[10:34.64] | I wanted to be happy |
[10:38.08] | I wanted to be warm, |
[10:40.39] | to wear shoes, to eat good food |
[10:45.43] | I wanted someone to take care of me That' s all |
[10:51.74] | My mother gave me nothing |
[10:54.71] | She gave me no love |
[10:57.28] | She never took care of me |
[11:00.72] | Because my mother was a witch, |
[11:03.96] | my father ran away and I never knew him |
[11:10.63] | My father was a rich man without a name, |
[11:14.54] | and I lived hungry and cold with a witch |
[11:22.44] | And so I told Judge Bromley the truth about my family |
[11:28.99] | Was I wrong? I don' t know |
[11:35.94] | I was happy for years at Read Hall |
[11:39.55] | For twentyone years, I forgot my family. |
[11:44.62] | I learned to cook for the Nowell family |
[11:47.99] | I worked many hours every day but I was warm |
[11:52.46] | and I ate good food |
[11:55.86] | Every Sunday, in my best dress, I went to church |
[12:02.24] | every summer I walked over Pendle Hill |
[12:07.66] | I never thought about my family, |
[12:10.63] | because I was happy at Read Hall |
[12:16.65] | In August 1612, |
[12:20.29] | the guards hanged my family in front of Lancaster Castle |
[12:26.22] | But their dead faces waited for me there |
[12:32.09] | and a year ago, in 1633, |
[12:37.19] | when the guards put me in the prison in Lancaster Castle, |
[12:42.33] | I met them again |
[12:46.22] | Day after day, I see their ugly, |
[12:50.07] | dead faces and hear their cold, angry voices |
[12:58.85] | I think of them all the time |
[13:04.88] | God is with me here, in prison |
[13:07.53] | I believe that |
[13:10.21] | But my dead family is with me too |
[13:16.46] | Mr Webster, from the church at Kildwick, |
[13:22.06] | visits me again |
[13:23.37] | His blue eyes are tired, but he smiles at me |
[13:30.58] | ' Edmund Robinson and his father told the truth in London, ' |
[13:36.67] | he says quietly |
[13:39.16] | ' The child told lies about you because he was afraid of his father |
[13:45.43] | He wanted his father to love him' |
[13:50.50] | I say nothing Mr Webster wants to be kind, |
[13:57.44] | but he cannot help me |
[14:00.82] | Mr Nowell cannot help me because he is dead |
[14:07.11] | Edmund Robinson is only a child |
[14:11.05] | he tells lies one day, |
[14:13.42] | and the truth the next day |
[14:17.16] | but the truth cannot help me |
[14:21.14] | What can I do against hate , and lies? |
[14:27.99] | When Mr Nowell was alive, |
[14:30.72] | the Villagers didn' t talk about me |
[14:34.52] | But when Mr Nowell died, the lies began |
[14:40.49] | The villagers are all afraid of me |
[14:44.06] | because my name is Device |
[14:47.18] | They hate me |
[14:49.71] | because my name is Device |
[14:53.92] | They say I am a witch |
[14:57.38] | because my name is Device |
[15:02.22] | I come from a family of witches, |
[15:05.46] | but I am not a witch |
[15:09.73] | Nobody died because I cursed them |
[15:13.40] | I never made clay pictures, |
[15:17.13] | I never had a cat or dog |
[15:21.81] | I only wanted to live quietly at Read Hall |
[15:27.14] | and watch the changing skies over Pendle Hill |
[15:34.30] | When I was a child, |
[15:36.33] | I was always cold and hungry, |
[15:40.18] | and I hated my family because they were witches |
[15:45.45] | In 1612, I told the truth, |
[15:50.19] | and the truth killed my family |
[15:54.62] | Now, twenty two years later, |
[15:59.39] | lies are going to kill me, |
[16:02.48] | here in Lancaster Castle, |
[16:06.64] | and I am cold and hungry again |
[16:13.89] | Mr Webster gives me bread, |
[16:17.39] | and I go back into the prison |
[16:20.44] | I can never go back to Read Hall |
[16:23.74] | I know that now |
[16:26.79] | I must stay here in Lancaster Castle, |
[16:30.60] | with my dead family |
[16:34.30] | They are watching me, |
[16:36.64] | and waiting for me |
[16:39.69] | I can never be free of them |
[16:44.97] | This is my true story |
[16:47.40] | and I want to finish it now |