Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: On 21 March 1612 , Alizon Device , who lived just outside the Lancashire village of Fence , near Pendle Hill , encountered John Law , a pedlar from Halifax .
Simplified: On 21 March 1612 , Alizon Device , who lived just outside the Lancashire village of Fence , near Pendle Hill , met John Law , a pedlar from Halifax .