Alice Nutter - Alleged Witch

Alice Nutter Born c1560 Died 20 August 1612 was one of a group of women accused, tried and executed in Lancaster, England.

At a time of reformation and superstition, there were circumstances that took place in 1612, when two families (or clans) were considered outsiders and subsequently alienated breeding superstition.

The superstitions became persecution after a villager had a stroke in the presence of the women.

Alice Nutter was different from the other accused, because she was comparatively wealthy, the Widow of a yeoman farmer(a man who owned his own land) see Alice Nutters Cottage

Her principal accuser was a nine-year-old girl called Jennet Device
Jennet (a young member one of the families) however, was not arrested, and it’s believed she was kept by Roger Nowell the Chief Prosecutor.

As the caption on the photo suggests, Alice Nutter a woman of means had no reason to be involved in witchcraft, and based on commentators Alice Nutter (and others), were refused counsel (Lawyers), or the right to call witnesses

Alice Nutter was hanged at Gallows Hill Lancaster 20 August 1612.

In 2018 The Knights of St Columba, a charitable catholic group ruled that Alice Nutter was actually a catholic Martyr, who was covertly attending a secret (illegal) mass, and due to the inability to prove that Alice Nutter was a practicing catholic determined it was easier to accuse Alice Nutter of witchcraft.