THE
NARRATIVE
IT
was
about
the
end
of
August
One
Thousand
Six
Hundred
Ninety
Six
,
when
the
first
Rise
and
Occasion
was
given
,
(
so
far
as
can
be
known
)
to
these
strange
Things
that
befel
the
Child
,
who
is
the
Subject
of
this
Narrative
;
and
the
Manner
was
thus
.
Christian
Shaw
,
Daughter
to
a
Gentleman
of
good
account
called
John
Shaw
Laird
of
Bargarran
,
in
the
Parish
of
Erskine
,
within
the
Shire
of
Renfrew
;
a
smart
lively
Girl
,
and
of
good
Inclinations
,
about
Eleven
Years
of
Age
,
perceiving
one
of
the
Maids
of
the
House
,
named
Catharine
Campbel
,
to
steal
and
drink
some
Milk
,
she
told
her
Mother
of
it
;
whereupon
the
Maid
Campbel
(
being
a
young
Woman
of
a
proud
and
revengeful
Temper
,
and
much
addicted
to
Cursing
and
Swearing
upon
any
light
occasion
,
and
otherways
given
to
Pur●oining
)
did
,
in
a
most
hideous
Rage
,
thrice
imprecat
the
Curse
of
GOD
upon
the
Child
;
and
at
the
same
time
did
thrice
utter
these
horrid
words
,
The
Devil
harle
(
that
is
Drag
)
your
Soul
thorow
Hell
.
This
●ast
upon
Munday
,
August
17.
in
presence
of
several
Witnesses
,
who
afterwards
made
Evidence
of
it
.
Upon
the
Friday
following
,
being
August
21.
about
Sun-rising
,
one
Agnes
Naismith
,
an
old
Widow
woman
,
ignorant
,
and
of
a
Malicious
Disposition
,
addicted
to
T●reatnings
,
(
which
sometimes
were
observed
to
be
followed
with
fatal
Events
)
who
lived
in
the
Neighbourhood
,
came
to
Barga●●an's
House
;
where
finding
the
Child
Christian
in
the
Court
with
her
younger
Sister
,
she
ask'd
How
the
Lady
and
young
Child
did
,
and
how
old
the
young
sucking
Child
was
;
to
which
Christian
replied
,
What
do
I
know
?
Then
Agnes
ask'd
,
How
her
▪
self
did
,
and
how
old
the
was
;
to
which
she
answered
,
that
she
was
well
,
and
in
the
eleventh
Year
of
her
Age.
On
the
Saturnday-night
thereafter
,
being
August
22.
the
Child
went
to
Bed
in
good
health
;
but
so
soon
as
she
fell
asleep
,
began
to
struggle
and
cry
,
Help
,
Help
:
And
then
suddenly
got
up
,
and
did
fly
over
the
top
of
a
Refting-bed
,
where
she
was
lying
(
her
Father
,
Mother
,
and
others
being
in
the
Room
,
and
to
their
great
Astonishment
and
Admiration
)
with
such
violence
,
that
probably
her
Brains
had
been
dasht
out
,
if
a
Woman
,
providentially
standing
by
,
and
supported
by
a
Door
at
her
back
,
had
not
broke
the
force
of
the
Childs
motion
;
who
being
laid
in
another
Bed
,
remained
stiff
and
insensible
as
if
she
had
been
dead
,
for
the
space
of
half
an
Hour
;
but
for
Fourty
eight
Hours
thereafter
could
not
sleep
,
crying
out
of
violent
Pains
thorow
her
whole
Body
▪
and
no
sooner
began
to
sleep
or
turn
drowsie
but
seemed
greatly
affrighted
,
crying
still
Help
,
Help
.
After
this
the
pain
fixt
in
her
left
Side
,
and
her
Body
was
often
so
bent
and
rigid
,
as
she
stood
like
a
Bow
on
her
Feet
and
Neck
at
once
,
and
continued
without
power
of
Speech
,
except
in
some
very
short
intervals
,
for
eight
days
;
during
which
time
,
she
had
scarce
half
an
Hours
intermission
together
,
the
Fits
taking
her
suddenly
,
and
both
coming
on
and
going
off
by
a
Swerff
or
short
deliquium
,
but
appeared
perfectly
well
and
sensible
in
the
Intervals
.
But
about
the
midle
of
September
,
her
fits
returned
in
a
manner
differing
from
the
former
,
wherein
she
seemed
to
fight
and
strugle
with
some
thing
that
was
invisible
to
spectators
,
and
her
Action
appear'd
as
if
she
had
been
defending
her self
from
some
who
were
assaulting
or
attempting
to
hurt
her
,
and
this
with
such
force
that
four
strong
Men
were
scarcely
able
to
hold
her
;
and
when
any
of
the
People
present
toucht
any
part
of
her
Body
▪
she
did
cry
and
schreek
with
such
vehemence
,
as
if
they
had
been
killing
her
,
but
could
not
speak
Before
this
time
as
she
was
seized
with
the
trouble
,
her
Parents
had
called
for
Physicians
from
Pas●●y
,
viz.
John
Whyte
Apothecary
a
near
relation
,
and
afterwards
Doctor
Johnstoun
;
who
took
Blood
and
applyed
several
things
both
at
first
,
and
afterward
,
without
any
discernable
Effect
upon
the
Patient
either
to
the
better
or
worse
:
And
she
all
the
while
of
these
Later
Fitts
being
afflicted
with
extraordinary
●●●ings
and
fallings
of
her
Belly
;
like
the
motion
of
a
pair
of
Bellows
!
and
such
strange
movings
of
her
Body
as
made
the
whole
Bed
she
lay
on
shake
,
to
the
great
consternation
of
Spectators
.
Some
dayes
thereafter
was
an
alteration
in
her
Fitts
,
so
far
,
that
she
got
speaking
,
during
the
time
of
them
;
and
while
she
was
in
the
fits
,
fell
a
crying
,
that
Katharine
Campbel
and
Agnes
Nasmith
were
cutting
her
side
,
and
other
parts
of
her
Body
;
Which
parts
were
in
that
time
violently
Tormented
And
when
the
fit
was
over
she
still
averred
,
that
she
had
seen
the
same
Persons
doing
the
same
things
which
she
complained
of
while
under
the
fit
(
it
being
remarkable
that
in
the
intervals
she
was
still
as
well
and
sensible
as
ever
and
would
not
believe
but
that
others
present
saw
them
at
well
as
she
!
In
this
condition
she
continued
with
some
but
not
very
considerable
variation
either
as
to
the
fits
or
intervals
,
for
the
space
of
a
Moneth
.
After
which
time
she
was
con●eighed
to
Glasgow
,
where
Doctor
Bir●bane
a
Phisician
deservedly
famed
for
skill
and
experience
,
did
by
Mr.
Henry
Mar●hell
apothecary
apply
Medicine
to
her
;
after
which
having
stayed
in
Glasgo●
about
ten
dayes
and
being
brought
home
to
the
Countrey
,
she
had
near
a
fortnights
intermission
But
then
her
fits
returned
,
with
this
difference
,
that
she
knew
when
they
were
acoming
by
a
pain
in
her
left
side
,
which
she
felt
before
they
c●me
,
&
in
these
Fits
her
Throat
was
prodigiously
drawn
down
toward
her
breast
,
&
her
Tongue
back
into
her
Throat
;
her
whole
Body
becoming
stiff
and
extended
as
a
Dead
Corpse
without
sense
or
motion
:
And
some
times
her
Tongue
was
drawn
out
of
her
Mouth
over
her
Chin
to
a
wonderful
length
,
her
Teet●
setting
together
so
fast
upon
it
,
that
those
present
were
forced
to
thrust
something
betwixt
her
Teeth
for
saving
her
Tongue
.
And
it
was
oft
observed
that
her
Tongue
was
thus
tortured
when
she
essayed
to
Pray
.
And
in
this
condition
she
was
for
some
time
,
with
sensible
intervals
wherein
she
had
perfect
health
,
and
could
give
a
full
account
of
what
she
was
heard
to
utter
while
in
the
Fit
.
For
several
dayes
these
Fits
continuing
with
some
variation
,
her
Parents
resolved
to
return
her
to
Glasgow
,
that
she
might
there
have
the
more
conveniency
of
being
under
the
Doctors
Oversight
and
Care
,
for
further
discerning
the
nature
of
her
trouble
and
making
use
of
the
most
probable
natural
remedies
.
But
being
on
●er
●●y
in
her
Grand-mothers
house
at
Northbar
,
she
did
thrust
or
spit
out
of
her
mouth
porcels
of
Hair
,
some
curled
,
some
plaited
,
some
knotted
,
of
different
colours
,
and
in
large
quantities
:
And
thus
she
continued
to
do
with
several
swooning
Fits
every
quarter
of
an
hour
,
both
in
her
passage
to
Glasgow
which
was
by
Boat
on
Thursday
,
Nor.
twelfth
:
And
when
she
was
in
Glasgow
for
the
space
of
three
dayes
ensuing
●●e
put●s
frequently
hair
out
of
her
Mouth
and
in
as
great
quantities
,
as
the
first
day
;
her
former
swerfing
or
swooning
Fits
recurring
as
often
t●orow
out
the
day
as
before
:
And
thereafter
from
Munday
to
Thursday
following
she
put
out
of
her
Mouth
Coal-cinders
about
the
bign●ss
of
Chast●uts
,
some
whereof
were
so
hot
that
they
could
scarcely
be
handled
,
one
of
which
Dr.
Birsbane
being
by
her
when
she
took
it
out
of
her
Mouth
,
felt
to
be
ho●e●
then
the
heat
of
any
ones
body
could
make
it
.
Then
for
the
space
of
two
days
in
these
swooning
Fits
,
as
formerly
,
there
was
put
or
taken
out
of
her
Mouth
straw
in
great
quantities
,
tho
but
one
straw
at
once
folded
up
together
which
when
put
out
returned
to
its
length
,
was
found
to
be
both
long
and
broad
,
and
it
was
remarkable
that
in
one
of
them
there
was
a
little
small
pin
found
.
Thereafter
were
put
out
of
her
mouth
bones
of
various
sorts
and
sizes
,
a
bones
of
Fowls
and
small
bones
of
the
heads
of
Kine
and
then
some
small
sticks
of
Candle
firt
(
a
sort
of
Fin
in
this
Countrey
th●●
burns
like
Candle
)
one
of
which
was
about
three
or
four
inches
long
;
which
,
when
any
,
upon
sight
of
either
bones
or
sticks
took
hold
of
to
pull
out
,
they
found
them
either
held
by
her
Teeth
set
together
upon
them
,
or
for●ibly
drawn
back
into
her
Throat
;
particularly
●●●chibald
Bon●ati●e
of
Kelli●
younger
observing
a
bone
in
her
mouth
like
a
duck
shank
or
le●
bone
,
and
essaying
to
pull
it
out
,
he
declared
be
found
something
drawing
it
back
into
her
throat
;
so
that
it
took
a
deal
of
force
to
get
it
pulled
out
.
It
is
to
be
noticed
that
she
never
knew
how
these
things
were
bro●ght
into
her
mouth
,
and
when
they
were
got
out
of
it
she
immediatly
recove●ed
of
her
fit
,
for
that
time
.
After
this
she
put
out
of
her
mouth
some
quantity
of
unclean
Hay
intermixed
with
dung
,
as
if
it
had
been
taken
out
of
a
Dunghil
;
which
was
so
stinking
that
the
Damsel
could
not
endure
the
nauseating
taste
and
vile
relish
those
things
produced
in
her
mouth
,
which
did
necessitate
her
still
to
rinse
her
mouth
with
Water
after
the
putting
of
that
sort
of
matter
out
of
it
.
Then
for
more
then
a
days
space
she
put
out
of
her
Mouth
a
number
of
wild
fowls
feathers
;
after
that
a
gravel-stone
which
in
the
judgment
of
beholders
had
been
passed
by
some
person
in
a
gravel
fit
;
with
some
small
whitestones
and
a
whole
nut
gall
(
wherewith
they
use
to
dye
and
to
make
ink
)
together
with
lumps
of
Candle
grease
,
and
egg-shells
;
during
which
time
she
continued
as
formerly
in
her
recurring
swooning
fits
with
some
intervals
wherein
she
was
in
perfect
health
:
Of
all
which
there
were
many
Famous
Witnesses
who
in
that
City
(
besides
those
who
were
continually
with
h●r
)
came
frequently
to
visit
her
.
It
is
to
be
noticed
,
that
the
Damsel
at
the
time
of
the
putting
out
of
her
Mouth
the
Sticks
abovementioned
being
in
Bed
about
eight
a
Clock
at
Nig●t
,
told
,
she
was
to
be
grievously
tormented
with
sore
Fits
that
Night
,
which
accordingly
fell
out
:
For
a
litle
thereafter
,
she
fell
into
along
swoon
,
wherein
she
had
no
use
of
any
Sense
,
either
of
Hearing
,
Seeing
,
or
Feeling
,
so
as
th●
oft
times
the
Beholders
called
to
her
with
a
loud
Voice
,
moving
also
and
tossing
her
body
,
all
was
to
no
purpose
,
and
when
the
Laird
of
Kelly
younger
abovenamed
,
to
try
the
Truth
,
gave
her
a
very
sore
pinsh
in
the
Arm
,
she
had
no
Sense
of
it
in
the
time
After
recovery
from
the
Swoon
!
but
yet
continuing
in
the
Fit
)
she
fell
a
reasoning
with
Katharine
Campbel
after
this
manner
,
Thou
sit'st
there
with
a
●uck
in
thy
Hand
to
put
in
my
Mouth
;
but
thorow
GOD's
strength
thou
shalt
not
get
leave
:
Thou
art
permitted
to
Torment
me
;
but
I
trust
in
GOD
,
thou
shalt
never
get
my
Life
,
tho
it
's
my
Life
thou
design'st
And
at
th●
time
call●ng
for
a
Bible
and
Candle
,
said
,
come
near
me
Katie
,
and
I'●●●●t
hee
see
where
a
godly
Man
was
given
up
to
Satan
to
be
Tormented
:
But
GOD
keeped
his
Li●em
His
own
Hand
:
And
so
I
trust
in
GOD
,
thou
shalt
never
get
my
Life
,
and
all
that
thou
shalt
be
permi●ted
to
do
unto
me
,
I
hope
thorow
GOD's
mercy
,
shall
turn
to
my
Advantage
.
This
Man
was
Rob'd
of
All
,
and
Tormented
in
Body
,
and
had
nothing
left
him
but
an
ill
Wife
.
Come
near
me
Ka●●e
,
and
s'lread
it
to
thee
"
And
teaching
that
Passages
〈◊〉
Job
.
when
she
came
to
the
place
where
hu
Wife
said
to
him
Curse
GOD
and
Die
,
that
Damsil
considering
these
words
a●●tle
,
said
?
O!
what
a
Wife
has
this
been
,
that
bids
,
her
Good
man
Carse
God
and
Die
?
she
who
should
have
been
a
comfort
to
him
in
his
Trouble
,
turned
a
Cross
to
him
?
Then
after
reading
of
the
Chapter
to
the
end
,
she
●●kt
towards
the
foot
of
the
Bed
and
sa●d
.
No●
Katie
,
what
think'st
thou
of
that
?
Thou
seest
,
for
all
the
power
the
Devil
got
over
Job
he
gain'd
no
Ground
on
him
;
and
I
hope
he
shall
gain
as
litle
on
me
.
Thy
Master
the
Devil
deceives
thee
,
he
is
a
bad
Master
whom
thou
serv'st
,
and
thou
shalt
find
it
to
thy
Smart
,
except
thou
Repent
before
thou
Die
;
there
is
no
Repentance
to
be
had
after
Death
:
I
'l
let
thee
see
Katie
,
there
is
no
Repentance
in
Hell
,
And
turning
over
the
●ook
●●●ng
●uk
:
16.
Chap.
n●ar
the
letter
end
thereof
,
and
reading
the
samen
over
,
said
,
Katie
thou
seest
there
is
no
Repentance
in
Hell
,
for
this
Rich
Man
besought
Abrabam
to
testify
to
his
five
Brethren
,
that
they
come
not
to
the
place
of
Torment
,
where
he
was
;
but
Repent
&
turn
to
the
LORD
,
for
there
is
no
winning
out
if
once
they
come
there
;
no
Katie
,
thou
hear'st
this
,
what
think'st
thou
of
it
I
'l
le●
thee
hear
another
place
which
should
pierce
thy
very
Heart
,
And
turning
over
the
Book
,
sa
d
●h●
would
re●d
about
Adam
and
Eve
t●h●r
,
thou
know'st
Katie
,
the
serpent
the
Devil
thy
Master
,
thought
to
have
ruined
Mankind
at
the
beginning
,
his
Malice
was
so
great
at
that
blessed
State
wherein
they
were
then
,
seeing
himself
cast
down
from
all
hopes
o●
Mercy
,
used
all
means
possible
for
him
to
subvert
their
happiness
,
by
suggesting
to
them
fair
Promises
,
and
a
prospect
of
Advantage
to
them
before
their
Eyes
,
in
causing
them
Eat
of
that
forbidden
Fruit
;
whereby
they
and
their
Posterity
fell
from
that
Estate
wherein
they
were
;
&
were
made
Subject
to
GOD's
Curse
for
ever
:
But
GOD
did
not
suffer
them
to
be
at
this
stance
,
but
of
his
infinit
Mercy
shewed
to
them
a
better
way
,
whereby
they
might
have
Life
Eternal
by
revealing
to
them
that
blessed
Promise
,
the
Seed
of
the
Woman
shall
bruise
the
Hea●
of
a
the
Serpent
.
Now
Katie
,
what
think'st
thou
of
that
Promise
?
But
have
mind
of
this
,
thou
it
get
no
Advantage
by
it
,
it
's
not
made
to
thee
,
who
hast
renounced
GOD's
Service
,
and
taken
on
with
the
Devil
;
thou
art
his
Slave
,
thou
deny'st
this
;
but
I
know
thou
art
a
Hypocrite
;
for
I
remember
,
when
thou
wast
in
my
Mothers
House
,
thou
bought
a
Catechism
,
upon
a
pretence
to
learn
to
Read
,
to
cloak
thy
Sin
:
Wil't
thou
hear
me
,
know'st
thou
the
reward
of
the
Hypocrit
?
I
'l
let
thee
hear
it
;
I
remember
Mr.
W
lliam
Gill●es
was
Lecturing
the
other
day
upon
the
23
of
Mathew
,
where
many
a
wo
is
pronounced
against
the
Hypocrit
,
Eight
dreadful
Wo's
here
,
Katie
,
and
some
of
them
belongs
to
thee
:
But
I
'l
tell
thee
more
,
know'st
thou
the
reward
of
the
Hypocrit
,
they
shall
be
cast
into
the
Lake
that
burns
forever
,
that
's
their
Portion
;
do'st
thou
hear
this
now
?
Thou
turn'●
thy
Back
to
me
,
when
I
am
telling
the
truth
;
if
I
were
reading
a
Story-Book
,
or
telling
a
Tale
to
thee
,
thou
would'st
hear
that
.
Remember
it
will
be
thy
Portion
too
,
if
thou
do
not
Repent
,
and
Confess
,
and
seek
Mercy
.
Again
turning
over
the
Book
,
she
read
about
Pilat
saying
,
Pilat
he
made
a
shew
of
cleansing
himself
of
CHRISTS
Blood
,
he
wash'd
his
Hands
and
declar'd
himself
Innocent
;
but
for
all
his
washing
,
he
had
a
foul
Heart
;
he
would
not
loss
his
Office
for
the
saving
of
CHRISTS
Life
:
He
knew
well
enough
that
CHRIST
was
an
innocent
Person
;
but
he
preferred
his
Honour
before
CHRIST
;
Therefore
to
please
the
Jews
,
and
to
quench
the
strugling
in
his
Conscience
,
he
washt
his
Hands
,
and
then
delivered
CHRIST
to
be
Crucified
by
them
.
Thus
she
continued
for
more
then
two
Hours
space
;
reasoning
at
this
Rate
,
and
exhorting
her
to
Repent
,
quoting
many
places
of
Scripture
thorow
the
Revelation
and
Evangelists
.
And
when
any
offered
to
pull
her
Bible
from
her
,
she
uttered
horrid
Schreeks
and
Out-crys
,
saying
,
She
would
never
part
v●ith
her
Bible
as
long
as
she
liv'd
,
she
would
keep
it
spight
of
all
the
Devils
.
Before
we
pass
from
this
,
it
will
be
needful
to
give
the
Reader
advertisement
of
some
things
.
1.
That
while
she
call'd
for
her
Bible
and
a
Candle
she
neither
heard
nor
saw
any
of
those
Persons
who
were
then
actually
and
discernably
presenting
he
Room
with
her
,
and
that
Katharine
Campbel
to
whom
she
directed
her
speech
was
not
discernably
present
to
any
other
Body
but
her self
.
And
that
pinch
she
got
in
her
insensible
fit
,
she
found
and
complain'd
of
the
pain
of
it
in
that
part
afterward
,
but
knew
not
how
she
came
by
it
,
nor
blamed
any
of
her
tormentors
for
it
.
2.
That
these
words
set
down
as
spoken
by
her
,
were
the
very
same
both
for
words
and
order
as
nearly
as
they
could
be
gathered
and
remembred
by
the
hearers
,
without
any
addition
of
their
own
.
3.
That
altho
she
was
a
Girle
of
a
pregnant
Spirit
above
her
age
,
and
had
much
of
the
Scriptures
,
and
withal
had
pretty
good
understanding
,
above
what
might
be
expected
of
one
of
her
years
,
of
the
foundamental
principles
of
Religion
taught
in
the
Catechisms
;
yet
we
doubt
not
but
in
so
strong
a
Combat
,
the
Lord
did
by
His
good
Spirit
graciously
affoord
her
a
more
then
ordinary
measure
of
Assistance
,
both
now
and
at
other
times
in
the
like
debates
.
Sometime
after
the
putting
out
of
her
mouth
the
trash
above-mentioned
she
fell
into
extreamly
violent
fits
,
with
lamentable
crying
;
four
Persons
being
hardly
able
to
withhold
her
from
Climbing
up
the
Walls
of
the
Chamber
,
or
from
otherwayes
doing
her self
hurt
,
mean
time
having
no
power
of
speech
,
while
in
the
fit
,
but
her
back
and
the
rest
of
her
Body
grievously
pained
:
In
which
condition
she
continued
four
of
five
days
with
the
usual
sensible
intervals
:
In
which
she
declared
,
that
four
men
Alexander
and
James
Andersons
,
and
other
two
(
of
whom
she
gave
particular
and
exact
marks
,
but
knew
not
their
names
)
were
tormenting
her
.
It
was
observ'd
that
many
of
these
she
named
were
known
to
be
Persons
of
ill-f●me
,
as
these
two
Persons
last
nam'd
were
:
It
is
also
remarkable
,
that
for
some
time
she
knew
not
the
name
of
the
said
Alexander
Anderson
,
till
one
day
he
came
a
begging
to
the
door
of
the
house
,
where
the
Damsel
was
,
whom
she
seeing
,
immediatly
cryed
out
,
that
was
be
whom
she
had
seen
among
the
Crew
.
After
this
she
fell
into
other
Fits
,
wherein
she
saw
the
forenamed
Persons
with
some
others
,
and
heard
and
saw
several
things
that
past
among
them
.
Particularly
,
she
sometimes
told
when
she
was
to
take
the
fits
,
how
often
she
would
take
them
,
(
which
fell
out
accordingly
)
with
some
discourses
that
were
among
them
relating
to
her self
and
others
.
About
the
eight
of
December
,
being
brought
home
again
from
Glasgow
,
and
having
had
six
or
seven
days
respite
from
her
●●ts
,
she
afterwards
fell
into
fright
ful
and
terrifying
fits
:
The
occasion
whereof
she
declar'd
to
be
,
her
seeing
the
Devil
in
prodigious
and
horrid
shapes
,
threatning
to
devour
her
,
and
then
she
would
fall
dead
and
stiff
with
all
the
parts
of
her
Body
distended
and
stretcht
out
as
a
Corpse
without
sense
or
motion
;
which
fits
as
they
came
suddenly
on
without
her
knowledge
,
so
she
did
as
suddenly
recover
and
grew
perfectly
well
;
and
they
usually
came
on
when
she
essayed
to
pray
.
In
which
time
also
other
fits
took
her
more
sensibly
,
she
knowing
when
they
were
a
coming
,
how
long
they
would
continue
,
and
when
they
would
return
:
In
which
fits
her
eyes
strangely
altered
,
and
turned
in
her
head
in
the
admiration
of
Spectators
,
with
a
continual
painful
working
about
her
heart
,
sometimes
her
joynts
were
complicat
and
drawn
together
,
and
her
fore
head
drawn
forcibly
about
toward
her
shoulders
;
which
fits
she
took
by
first
falling
into
a
Swoon
,
and
after
her
violent
fits
in●●●ntly
recovered
after
the
same
manner
.
During
this
time
the
fits
altered
again
as
to
their
times
of
comming
and
continuance
;
in
which
she
sometimes
endeavoured
to
b●●●●er
own
singers
,
or
any
thing
else
that
came
in
her
way
,
also
when
she
saw
the
Persons
before
mentioned
,
one
or
two
of
them
about
her
,
pointing
them
out
to
the
Persons
present
with
her
,
tho
by
them
unseen
,
and
sometime
declaring
that
she
had
hold
of
them
by
their
Cloaths
.
Particularly
.
December
,
17
,
She
being
in
a
fore
fit
she
cry'd
out
of
several
Persons
that
were
tormenting
her
;
and
being
in
the
bed
,
grasped
with
her
hands
towards
the
foot
of
it
,
and
cry'd
out
,
that
she
had
got
a
grip
of
the
sleeves
of
one
J.
P's
.
Jerkin
(
or
Jacker
)
which
was
,
as
she
said
,
duddie
,
(
that
is
ragged
or
tattered
)
at
the
elbows
:
And
in
that
very
instant
the
Damsels
Mother
and
Aunt
heard
the
sound
of
the
rending
or
tearing
of
a
Cloth
,
but
saw
or
felt
nothing
,
only
found
in
each
of
the
Damsels
hands
which
were
fast
closed
when
they
got
them
opened
,
a
bit
of
red
Cloth
,
locking
as
torn
off
a
Garment
;
of
which
kind
of
Cloath
there
had
been
none
in
the
Room
at
that
time
nor
in
the
whole
house
nor
near
it
,
that
any
kn●w
of
.
Another
particular
she
told
was
,
that
there
was
such
an
one
among
the
Crew
going
to
prick
her
Tongue
,
which
thereupon
was
instantly
pull'd
back
into
her
Throat
,
she
lying
dumb
for
a
considerable
space
.
Sometimes
upon
her
recovery
from
her
Fits
she
told
that
she
heard
several
things
spoken
and
communed
among
her
afflicters
,
but
durst
not
make
them
known
;
because
they
threatned
to
Torment
her
after
this
,
or
the
other
mann●r
,
if
she
should
make
them
known
,
and
accordingly
when
by
her
Mother
or
others
she
was
prevailed
with
to
begin
to
tell
them
instantly
the
Torment
fell
out
as
was
threatned
.
She
told
further
that
her
Tormentors
appear'd
to
her
usually
with
Lights
and
strange
sorts
of
Candles
,
which
were
frightful
to
her
to
look
to
.
Thus
she
continued
till
the
first
of
January
.
1697
,
not
only
in
the
fits
foremention'd
with
some
alterations
,
but
fell
likewayes
by
swooning
into
light
●its
,
wherein
she
continued
for
two
or
three
hours
together
,
sometimes
more
,
sometimes
less
,
with
very
short
Intervals
,
in
which
Fits
she
did
not
much
complain
of
pain
;
but
had
a
great
palpitation
in
her
breast
,
and
sometimes
in
other
parts
of
her
Body
strange
and
●naccountable
motions
,
which
continued
in
a
greater
or
lesser
degree
during
the
whole
time
of
the
Fit
,
wherein
she
was
somewhat
light
,
and
not
so
solid
in
her
mind
●s
as
at
other
times
;
tho
in
the
Intervals
of
these
,
as
of
all
other
fits
she
was
sufficiently
composed
;
which
Fits
,
〈◊〉
all
the
rest
,
came
suddenly
on
and
went
as
suddenly
off
b●
a
Swoon
or
Swe●f
.
Before
we
proceed
further
in
the
Relation
,
les
it
be
noticed
first
,
that
the
foresaid
,
Agnes
Naism●●h
,
being
brought
by
the
Parents
a
second
time
to
see
the
Damsel
▪
did
(
●●o
not
desi●ed
)
pray
for
her
,
viz.
that
t●●
Lord
God
of
Heaven
and
Earth
might
send
the
Dams●th●●
h●●●th
a●d
try
out
the
Verity
:
After
which
,
the
Damsel
declared
that
t●o
the
said
Ag●e
ha●●o●●e●ly
been
very
troub●e●ome
to
her
;
yet
,
from
that
time
forth
she
did
not
more
appea●
to
●er
,
as
her
Tormentor
;
but
upon
the
contrary
,
as
she
apprehende●
,
defe●ding
her
from
the
fury
of
the
rest
.
2.
It
is
further
here
to
be
noticed
that
the
fore
nam'd
Katharin●
Campbel
,
could
by
no
means
be
prevailed
,
with
to
pray
for
●he
Dam●el
,
but
upon
the
contr●ry
when
desired
by
some
,
c●rsed
them
and
all
the
Family
of
Bargarren
,
and
in
particular
the
Damsel
and
all
that
belon●ed
to
her
,
withal
adding
this
grievous
Imprecation
;
The
Devi●
let
●er
n●ves
grow
bette●
,
no●
any
concern'd
in
her
,
be
in
a
better
cond●tion
then
she
was
in
,
for
what
they
●ad
done
to
her
.
Which
words
she
spoke
before
diverse
famous
Witnesses
.
3.
That
Bargarren
having
●revailed
with
the
Sheri●
deput
of
the
Shi●e
,
to
imprison
the
said
Katha●ine
Ca●phel
;
she
from
the
time
of
her
Imprisonment
,
never
appear'd
to
the
Damsel
(
tho
formerly
she
had
ordinarly
appear'd
as
one
of
her
most
violent
Tormentors
)
except
once
or
twice
,
at
which
times
it
was
found
upon
after
enquiry
,
that
she
wa●
not
in
the
To●booth
but
either
in
the
●aylors
house
,
or
had
liberty
granted
her
to
go
out
to
Church
.
4.
That
at
the
time
when
the
Damsel
did
put
out
her
mouth
the
hair
and
other
trash
as
above
related
.
Katrin●
Campbel
being
taken
into
custody
,
the●e
was
found
in
her
po●ket
a
ball
of
hair
of
several
colours
,
which
was
afterwards
thrown
into
the
Fire
,
after
which
time
the
Damsel
put
no
more
ha●●
out
of
her
Mouth
.
And
it
is
to
be
further
noticed
that
she
said
,
she
heard
amongst
the
Crew
,
when
tormenting
her
,
that
Katharine
Campbel
made
that
Ball
of
ha●r
found
in
her
po●ket
,
of
the
hair
of
the
Damsels
head
which
had
been
cut
when
he●
trouble
began
,
and
which
did
agree
in
colour
,
&c.
when
compared
.
Upon
the
first
day
of
Ja●uary
about
ten
●clock
at
night
,
she
fell
by
swooning●
into
Fits
differing
from
the
former
,
in
that
,
after
the
swooning
fit
was
over
,
she
lay
quiet
,
as
if
she
had
been
dead
,
making
no
motion
at
all
with
her
Body
in
the
Bed
;
yet
at
the
same
time
these
present
heard
her
mournful
talking
,
but
with
a
low
and
hardly
audible
Voice
,
and
repea●ing
several
Storys
in
meeter
which
they
●hought
to
be
Expressions
of
the
Rise
and
Progress
of
her
own
trouble
;
and
thus
she
continued
(
still
withall
naming
some
of
the
forementioned
Persons
)
till
her
Parents
and
others
offered
to
Rouze
her
,
by
Touching
&
Moving
her
body
.
Whereupon
instantly
she
uttered
horrid
Schreeks
,
and
cry'd
at
if
she
had
been
pierced
thorow
with
Swords
,
and
assaulted
for
her
Life
.
After
which
she
fell
a
Singing
,
Leaping
,
and
Dancing
for
a
long
time
,
laughing
with
a
loud
Voice
,
in
an
unusual
manner
,
tearing
down
the
Hingings
of
the
Bed
,
&
pulling
off
her
Head-cloaths
and
Ne●k
cloaths
;
in
which
Extravagances
she
was
acted
with
such
Force
and
Strength
,
that
her
●ather
and
Minister
tho
joyning
their
whole
Strength
together
,
could
not
get
her
Dancing
and
Leaping
hindered
.
But
after
Prayer
,
the
Minister
finding
her
Composed
,
enquired
if
she
remembered
what
she
had
done
in
time
of
the
Fit
;
to
which
she
reply'd
,
That
she
disti●ctly
remembered
her
miscariages
,
and
in
speciall
her
Singing
&
Dancing
,
saying
withall
,
that
the
Witches
enclosing
her
in
a
Ring
(
or
Circle
)
and
Dancing
and
Singing
about
her
,
was
the
occasion
of
her
Dancing
,
which
●he
then
gladly
performed
with
the
rest
.
For
some
days
after
she
had
Fits
much
after
this
manner
,
with
some
vari●tion
:
In
one
of
which
●its
,
as
she
was
tearing
off
her
Head-dress
cloaths
,
her
Parents
resolving
to
see
what
would
be
the
event
,
did
make
no
hinderance
to
her
:
Whereupon
she
stript
her self
of
all
her
Cloaths
that
were
upon
her
,
not
leaving
so
much
as
her
Smock
upon
her
Body
,
if
that
had
been
per●itted
.
After
this
toward
or
about
the
Eleventh
of
January
,
she
fell
into
Fits
different
from
the
former
,
in
which
she
was
suddenly
carried
away
from
her
Parents
and
others
that
were
about
her
,
with
a
sudden
flight
,
and
in
the
first
of
these
(
to
their
great
amazement
)
thorow
the
Chamber
and
Hall
down
a
long
winding
Stair
toward
the
●ower-gate
,
with
such
a
swift
and
unaccountable
motion
,
that
it
was
not
in
the
power
of
any
to
prevent
her
,
her
Feet
not
touching
the
Ground
,
so
far
as
any
of
the
Beholders
could
discern
,
being
heard
in
her
motion
to
laugh
in
an
unusual
manner
:
But
by
Divine
Providence
the
Gate
being
shut
,
her
motion
was
●●opt
till
such
time
as
some
of
the
Family
could
overtake
her
,
who
endeavouring
to
carry
her
back
,
found
her
instantly
fall
as
one
dead
and
become
stiff
:
In
which
posture
,
being
brought
back
to
the
Chamber
,
she
lay
for
a
considerable
space
.
And
being
recover'd
she
did
declare
,
that
there
were
about
the
number
of
Nine
or
Ten
Persons
who
had
carried
her
away
in
a
Shue
(
as
she
term'd
it
,
that
is
as
one
swinging
upon
a
Rope
)
wherein
she
then
took
pleasure
,
her
Feet
not
at
all
touching
the
Ground
,
to
her
apprehension
.
The
Night
following
she
was
suddenly
carried
away
,
as
before
,
from
her
Parents
and
others
who
were
about
her
,
thorow
the
Chamber
and
Hall
,
and
sixteen
large
steps
of
a
winding
Stair
up
,
toward
the
top
of
the
House
!
where
she
met
with
Apparitions
of
strange
and
unaccountable
things
,
but
was
carried
down
again
as
she
thought
in
a
shue
or
swing
,
asserting
after
her
●ecovery
that
she
met
upon
the
Stair
the
number
of
six
Women
and
four
Men
,
and
by
them
was
carried
toward
the
Gate
again
,
where
accordingly
she
was
found
,
and
was
carried
up
as
formerly
,
all
the
parts
of
her
Body
distended
and
stiff
as
one
Dead
;
in
which
posture
she
lay
for
sometime
,
and
when
recovering
,
declared
,
that
both
now
and
formerly
,
she
had
endeavoured
to
open
the
Gate
,
and
that
those
she
saw
about
her
were
helping
her
,
with
a
design
to
get
her
to
the
Court
to
drown
her
in
the
Well
,
which
she
said
she
heard
them
saying
among
themselves
,
they
intended
to
do
,
and
that
then
the
World
would
believe
she
had
destroyed
herself
.
It
is
observable
that
(
these
kind
of
Fits
continuing
with
her
for
some
few
dayes
)
in
one
of
them
she
wa●
stop't
at
the
Gate
,
and
found
in
the
foremention'd
Posture
which
was
neither
Locked
nor
Barred
;
yet
could
they
not
get
it
oppened
tho
both
●●e
and
her
Tormentors
endeavoured
it
.
Before
we
proceed
in
the
Relation
,
it
is
not
to
be
omitted
that
as
soon
as
the
Damsels
affliction
was
observ'd
to
be
extraordinary
and
preternatural
there
were
(
besides
times
formerly
set
a
part
in
a
more
private
way
)
at
the
desire
of
the
Parents
and
Minister
,
and
by
the
Presbytries
special
order
,
a
Minister
or
two
appointed
to
meet
one
day
of
every
Week
at
the
house
of
Bargarra●
to
joy
a
with
the
Family
,
the
Minister
of
the
Parish
and
other
good
Christians
of
the
Neighbourhood
,
in
Fasting
and
Praying
which
usually
fell
to
be
on
the
T●●●day
▪
And
upon
the
12th
of
January
it
being
the
turn
of
Mr.
Patrick
Simp●●●●
a
Neighbour
Minister
to
be
there
;
when
he
came
to
the
house
he
found
both
the
Minister
of
the
Parish
;
and
the
Brother
who
was
to
joyn
with
him
had
been
necessarly
withdrawn
;
yet
resolved
to
carry
on
the
Work
with
assistance
of
three
Elders
,
some
other
good
People
being
present
.
When
he
first
saw
the
Damsel
after
he
came
to
the
house
,
he
found
her
under
some
lesser
Fits
which
came
and
went
off
quickly
,
and
when
Prayer
began
she
was
quiet
and
sober
during
the
same
,
but
in
time
of
singing
the
93
Psalm
,
she
fell
into
a
sore
Fit
,
of
greater
continuance
,
first
Laughing
then
making
some
sound
like
Singing
,
after
that
pulling
her
head
Cloath●down
over
her
Face
,
and
lastly
turning
so
outragious
in
her
●otions
that
her
Father
could
scarce
get
her
holden
with
his
whole
strength
,
but
be●oved
to
ly
over
upon
the
●ed
with
her
in
his
Arms
untill
the
Fit
abated
:
After
her
Recovery
from
which
,
she
was
quiet
and
composed
all
the
time
of
Prayer
▪
and
while
the
Minister
Lectur'd
on
M●●●
,
9.
from
14
verse
and
forward
to
verse
,
30.
was
very
Attentive
,
carefully
looking
in
her
Bible
the
Scriptures
quoted
,
so
all
along
both
in
time
of
Prayes
and
Singing
untill
the
whole
Religious
ex●rcise
was
ended
,
and
some
Refreshment
after
the
same
taken
,
at
the
end
of
which
she
told
the
Company
▪
she
had
something
to
tell
which
she
heard
some
among
her
Tormenters
saying
,
which
she
durk
not
reveal
;
But
the
Minister
and
her
Mother
urging
her
to
befree
and
not
to
obey
the
Devil
,
she
said
,
she
would
tell
it
her
Mother
in
her
ear
.
Then
coming
from
the
other
side
of
the
Table
,
and
placing
her self
betwixt
her
Mother
and
Aunt
she
began
to
Whisper
in
her
Mothers
Ear
;
but
before
she
got
a
Sentence
fully
pronunced
,
she
fell
into
a
violent
Fit
,
so
as
her
Mother
and
those
next
her
could
scarcely
hold
her
till
the
Violence
thereof
began
to
abate
,
and
then
her
Mother
told
that
she
was
speaking
of
a
Meeting
and
a
Feast
they
had
spoken
of
in
the
Orchard
of
●argarran
,
but
was
able
to
say
no
more
▪
and
after
Recovery
,
her
Mother
desiring
her
to
tell
the
rest
of
it
,
and
she
beginning
to
Whisper
in
her
〈◊〉
,
as
before
,
could
not
get
one
word
uttered
till
she
was
seiz'd
again
of
a
Fit
,
as
violent
as
the
former
.
Whereupon
the
Minister
perceiving
her
Torment
,
desired
them
●o
forbear
any
further
troubling
of
her
.
Notice
,
that
accordingly
there
was
a
Feast
and
Meeting
in
that
Orchard
about
that
time
,
of
the
Crew
▪
acknowledged
,
and
declared
afterward●
by
three
of
them
that
Confessed
themselves
to
have
been
there
.
viz
Elizahath
Andersen
,
James
and
Thomas
Lindsars
they
not
knowing
what
either
the
Damsel
had
Spoken
,
or
one
of
them
what
another
had
Confest
relating
thereunto
.
About
or
within
a
little
after
this
time
,
she
was
again
suddenly
carried
from
them
in
the
former
manner
down
a
Stair
,
which
goes
off
from
a
Corner
of
the
Chamber
to
a
Celler
just
below
it
▪
where
her
Brother
&
Sister
were
providentially
gone
down
a
little
before
,
to
bring
some
drink
from
the
Celler
,
and
already
near
the
stair
Foot
,
with
a
lighted
Candle
,
which
she
soon
put
out
:
But
they
crying
and
holding
her
by
the
Head-Cloaths
,
qui●kly
discovered
to
the
rest
where
she
was
.
Upon
which
Mr.
Alexander
King
Minister
at
Bo●nil
(
being
then
in
the
Chamber
)
made
ha●●e
down
Stair●
where
he
found
her
▪
bu●
her
Brother
and
Sister
had
lost
hold
of
her
,
she
having
loosed
her
Head-cloaths
and
let
them
go
;
yet
Mr.
King
having
caught
hold
of
her
,
keept
her
in
his
Arms
till
a
lighted
Candle
was
brought
,
and
endeavoring
to
bring
her
up
Stairs
,
did
declare
that
he
found
something
forcibly
drawing
her
downwards
,
but
he
still
keeping
his
hold
,
she
fell
stiff
as
one
Dead
upon
the
Stair
&
was
in
this
Posture
carried
up
and
laid
in
Bed
,
where
she
lay
a
considerable
space
.
And
when
recovered
of
the
Fit
,
she
declar'd
that
the
Occasion
of
her
going
down
Stairs
with
such
Force
,
was
,
that
the
Crew
had
suggested
to
her
while
she
was
in
the
light
Fits
,
that
the
Devil
was
in
the
Meal
Chist
in
the
Celler
,
and
that
if
she
would
go
down
and
put
out
the
Candle
,
she
might
force
him
out
of
it
.
Notice
here
first
,
that
when
some
Fits
of
this
kind
were
ready
to
seize
her
,
she
sometimes
gave
advertisement
thereof
to
these
present
with
her
,
giving
signs
of
her
earnest
desire
of
their
help
to
prevent
her
Motion
,
which
usually
proved
to
be
of
good
effect
,
wherein
the
Divine
Mercy
toward
her
is
much
to
be
observed
.
2.
It
is
also
to
be
noticed
,
that
about
the
time
when
she
was
in
these
flying
Fits
,
she
used
to
utter
horrid
Screek●
and
Out
crye●
not
like
those
of
Rational
Creatures
:
In
which
time
there
was
heard
for
three
nights
together
,
when
the
Damsel
was
a
sleep
in
Bed
,
Sc●reeks
and
O●t-cryes
of
the
same
kind
in
the
Court
,
when
none
of
the
Family
was
without
Doors
,
to
the
great
afrightment
of
those
who
heard
them
,
being
that
they
exactly
resembled
the
Crys
and
Skreeks
the
Damsel
used
to
utter
in
the
Fits
;
who
afterwards
in
one
of
her
Intervals
hearing
some
of
the
Family
talking
of
those
Crys
and
Skreeks
,
and
alledging
they
had
been
uttered
by
some
wild
beast
or
other
,
said
to
them
,
they
were
mistaken
▪
for
it
was
Margare●
.
And
two
others
of
the
name
of
Margaret
call'd
by
the
Crew
their
Maggi's
,
had
uttered
these
Skreeks
,
the
Devil
having
promised
to
them
at
that
time
to
carry
her
out
of
the
House
to
them
,
that
they
might
drown
her
in
the
Well
,
where
there
were
eighteen
more
waiting
for
her
.
After
this
she
fell
into
freting
and
angry
fits
(
as
she
term'd
them
)
in
which
her
humor
was
cross
to
all
that
those
about
her
could
either
say
or
do
▪
nothing
proving
to
her
satisfaction
,
but
every
thing
displeasing
,
(
her
former
fits
withal
now
and
then
seizing
her
)
but
when
restored
to
a
right
composure
of
mind
,
she
declar'd
that
her
Tormentors
about
her
did
still
suggest
to
her
and
advise
her
to
go
to
such
and
such
remote
places
of
the
house
her
alone●
and
bring
with
her
a
Snood
(
which
is
a
head-lace
such
as
Women
ty
up
their
hair
with
)
or
a
Cravat
or
some
such
thing
,
promising
her
rough
Almonds
or
some
kinds
of
swe●tmeats
which
they
nam'd
to
her
,
and
for
that
end
,
to
bring
her
apron
with
her
to
hold
them
in
,
and
accordingly
when
seiz'd
again
with
fits
of
this
nature
did
resolutly
endeavour
to
repair
to
these
places
,
having
a
Snood
or
Cravat
and
her
Apron
with
her
,
and
would
suffer
none
to
be
in
her
Company
,
which
put
her
Parents
and
others
to
a
necessity
of
detaining
her
by
force
,
and
she
being
thus
prevented
,
utteted
hideous
schreeks
and
outcryes
,
of
which
in
this
sort
of
fits
she
was
seldom
free
.
Thursday
,
January
14th
▪
at
night
a
young
●ass
or
Girle
apper'd
to
her
with
a
scabbed
face
amongst
the
rest
of
her
Tormentors
,
relling
her
she
was
to
come
to
the
house
to
morrow
about
ten
a
clock
,
and
forbidding
her
to
reveal
it
.
The
next
day
being
January
15th
,
in
the
afternoon
the
Damsel
earnestly
enquired
at
her
Mother
and
the
rest
of
the
Family
what
Beggars
had
come
to
the
gate
that
day
,
and
of
what
Countenance
and
visage
they
were
▪
But
the
Family
not
knowing
her
design
in
such
a
question
,
gave
no
heed
unto
it
;
yet
she
still
in
fisting
and
being
in
Company
with
her
Mother
and
another
Gentlewoman
,
about
four
a
clock
at
night
said
to
them
,
she
thought
she
might
tell
them
somewhat
(
the
time
being
now
pa●●
)
the
was
forbidden
to
reveal
;
but
beginning
to
tell
she
presently
fell
a
crying
that
she
was
tormented
and
pricked
th●row
her
whole
●ody
;
yet
recovering
from
the
fit
,
went
on
and
told
it
;
the
thing
the
had
to
reveal
was
,
that
a
scabbed
fac'd
●ass
appear'd
to
her
y●●er-night
and
was
to
●e
at
the
gate
this
day
at
ten
a
Cloak
.
Whereupon
the
Servants
being
enquired
at
,
what
sort
of
beggers
had
been
there
that
day
,
did
declare
among
others
,
there
had
been
a
begger
Wife
at
the
door
and
a
younger
Woman
or
Lass
with
her
who
had
Scabs
on
her
Face
,
and
receiv'd
their
Alms.
January
,
16th
,
and
17th
,
When
recovered
of
her
swouning
Fits
,
she
put●
u●
of
her
Mouth
a
great
number
of
Fins
,
which
she
declared
J.
had
forc'd
into
her
Mouth
,
and
a
Gentlewoman
who
had
been
always
one
of
her
most
violent
Tormentors
.
January
,
21.
Her
Fits
altered
again
,
after
this
manner
,
she
would
fall
in
them
with
heavy
Sighs
and
Groans
and
hideous
Outeryes
,
telling
those
about
her
that
Cats
,
Ravens
,
Owles
and
Horses
were
destroying
and
pressing
her
down
in
the
Bed
:
And
at
the
same
time
her
Mother
and
another
Gentlewoman
,
being
in
the
Room
with
her
,
did
declare
that
immediatly
after
they
had
taken
the
Girle
out
of
her
Bed
in
this
condition
,
they
did
see
something
moving
under
the
Bed-cloaths
as
big
as
a
Cat.
The
same
Morning
in
the
interval
of
her
Fits
,
she
said
,
she
heard
her
Tormentors
Whisper
amongst
themselves
,
and
suggest
to
one
another
,
(
naming
J.
P.
the
Andersons
and
others
)
that
the
Devil
had
promised
and
engaged
to
them
,
to
carry
her
over
the
Hall
Window
,
to
the
end
they
might
Drown
her
in
the
Well
which
was
in
the
court
;
and
then
they
said
the
World
would
believe
she
had
destroyed
her self
;
and
the
same
day
and
several
dayes
thereafter
,
when
seiz'd
with
her
Grievous
Fits
,
did
attempt
with
such
force
to
get
her self
over
that
Window
,
that
Spectators
could
scarce
with
their
whole
strength
prevent
her
.
About
this
time
,
nothing
in
the
World
would
so
discompose
her
as
Religious
Exercises
,
if
there
were
any
discourses
of
God
or
Christ
,
or
any
of
the
things
which
are
not
seen
and
are
Eternal
,
she
would
be
cast
into
grievous
Agonies
;
and
when
she
assayed
in
her
light
Fits
,
to
read
any
portion
of
the
Scriptures
,
repeat
any
of
the
Psalms
,
or
answer
any
Questions
of
out
Catechisms
(
which
she
could
do
exactly
well
at
other
times
)
she
was
suddenly
struck
Dumb
and
lay
as
one
stiff
Dead
,
her
Mouth
opened
to
such
a
Wideness
that
her
Jaw
appeard
to
be
out
of
joynt
,
and
anone
would
clap
together
again
with
incredible
Force
.
The
same
happened
to
her
Shoulder
blade
,
her
Elbow
,
and
Hand-wrists
.
She
would
at
other
timely
in
a
benum
d
Conditions
,
2nd
be
drawn
together
as
if
she
had
been
ty'd
Neck
&
Heels
with
Ropes
;
yet
on
a
sudden
would
with
such
Force
and
Violence
be
pull'd
up
and
Tear
all
about
her
,
that
it
was
as
much
as
one
or
two
could
do
,
to
hold
her
fast
in
their
Arms
:
But
when
Ministers
and
other
good
Christians
(
seeing
her
in
such
intollerable
Anguishes
)
made
serious
Application
by
Prayer
to
God
,
on
her
behalf
,
she
got
respite
from
her
grievous
Fits
of
this
kind
,
and
was
ordinarly
free
of
them
during
the
time
of
Prayer
,
tho
seiz'd
of
them
before
;
and
albeit
usually
when
Ministers
began
to
Pray
she
made
great
disturbance
by
idle
lowd
talking
,
Whistling
,
Singing
,
and
Roating
,
to
drown
the
Voice
of
the
person
praying
.
Particularly
January
22.
She
was
more
Turbulent
then
at
other
times
she
us'd
to
be
,
and
continued
some
space
after
the
Minister
began
to
Pray
,
Singing
and
making
a
hideons
Noise
,
ferening
furious
Blows
with
her
Fist
,
and
Kicks
with
her
Feet
at
the
Minister
,
uttering
reproachful
Talk
of
him
,
and
calling
him
Dog
,
&c.
Yet
she
being
Compos'd
,
and
her
Fits
being
over
before
Prayer
was
ended
,
and
the
Minister
when
he
had
done
,
finding
her
Sober
and
a
right
Composure
of
Mind
,
enquired
why
she
made
such
disturbance
?
To
which
she
reply'd
,
she
was
force
to
do
it
by
the
Hellish
Crue
about
her
,
and
that
she
thought
they
were
none
of
her
own
words
that
shouttered
.
January
24th
.
She
said
some
things
relating
both
to
herself
and
others
had
been
inggested
to
her
by
her
Troublers
;
but
that
they
had
threatned
to
Torment
her
,
if
the
should
offer
to
make
them
known
.
And
accordingly
she
Essaying
to
express
her
Mind
,
was
cast
into
two
greivous
Fits
,
in
which
she
cry'd
out
of
violent
pains
;
all
the
parts
of
her
Body
becoming
Rigid
and
extended
like
a
Corpse
,
her
Head
was
twisted
round
,
and
if
any
offered
by
force
to
obstruct
such
dangerous
Motion
she
seem'd
to
be
upon
,
she
would
roar
exceedingly
so
menmes
her
Nec●
bone
seem'd
to
be
dissolv'd
;
and
yet
on
a
sudden
became
so
stiff
,
that
there
was
no
moving
of
it
;
and
when
those
greivous
Agonys
were
over
,
she
again
Essay'd
to
express
her
Mind
by
Write
,
but
to
no
purpose
;
for
instantly
she
was
cast
into
other
two
very
greivous
Fits
,
wherein
she
was
struct
Dumb
,
Deaf
and
Blind
,
and
her
Tongue
drawn
a
prodigeous
length
over
her
Chin.
And
when
the
Fits
were
over
,
declar'd
,
the
Andersons
J.
P.
the
Gentlewoman
,
and
I.
D.
with
the
rest
of
the
Hellish
Crew
,
some
of
whom
she
could
no
shame
,
had
been
Tormenting
her
in
the
Fits
,
and
that
there
has
been
fifteen
of
them
about
the
House
all
the
last
Night
;
but
were
now
all
gone
,
save
one
,
who
was
to
sta●
about
the
House
till
her
Fits
were
over
.
And
accordingly
her
Brother
and
Sister
did
declare
;
they
saw
that
Morning
a
Woman
in
the
Garden
with
a
red
Good
about
her
Head
,
sitting
at
the
Root
of
an
Aple-Tree
;
but
Bargarren
with
most
of
the
Servants
being
abroad
,
the
Matter
was
not
further
search't
.
The
same
day
about
Six
at
Night
,
she
was
seiz'd
with
variety
of
greivous
Fits
again
,
in
which
sometimes
she
lay
wholly
Senseless
and
Breathless
,
with
her
Belly
swer'd
like
a
Drum
,
as
like
a
Woman
with
Child
,
her
Eyes
were
pul'd
into
her
Head
so
far
that
Spectators
thought
she
should
never
have
us'd
them
more
,
sometimes
when
she
was
tying
her
own
Neck-cloaths
,
her
enchanted
Hands
would
ty
them
so
strait
about
her
Neck
,
that
she
had
strangled
her self
if
Spectators
had
not
given
some
Relief
unto
her
;
sometimes
she
was
in
hazard
of
burning
her self
in
the
fire
,
offering
with
violence
to
throw
her self
into
the
same
.
Divers
time
she
did
strick
furious
Blows
at
her
near
Relations
in
her
Fits
,
she
'd
maintain
Discource
with
her
Tormentors
;
and
asking
Questions
concerning
her self
and
others
,
received
answer
from
them
;
which
indeed
none
but
her self
perceiv'd
:
Reasoning
particularly
with
one
of
them
after
this
manners
;
O
what
ail'd
thee
to
be
a
Witch
!
thou
sai'st
it
is
but
three
Nights
since
thou
wast
a
Witch
,
O
if
thou
would'st
Repent
,
it
may
be
GOD
might
give
thee
Repentance
,
if
thou
would'st
seek
it
,
and
Confess
;
if
thou
would
desire
me
I
would
do
what
I
could
;
for
he
Devil
is
an
ill
Master
to
serve
,
he
is
a
Dyer
from
the
beginning
,
he
promises
but
he
cannot
perform
.
Then
calling
for
her
bible
,
she
said
,
I
'l
let
thee
see
where
he
promised
to
our
first
Parents
,
that
they
should
not
Die
.
And
reading
the
passage
,
said
,
now
thou
seest
he
is
a
Lyer
;
for
by
breaking
of
the
Commandment
,
they
were
made
lyable
to
Death
here
and
Death
everlasting
.
O
that
's
an
Uncouth
word
;
long
Eternity
never
to
nave
an
end
,
never
never
to
have
an
end
:
Had
not
GOD
of
his
infinit
Mercy
ordain'd
some
to
Eternal
Life
throught
JESUS
CHRIST
.
The
Devil
makes
thee
believe
thou
wilt
get
great
Riches
by
serving
him
;
but
come
near
,
and
having
uttered
this
word
she
lost
power
of
Speech
,
her
Tongue
being
drawn
back
into
her
Throat
;
yet
beckning
with
her
Hand
to
the
Spectre
to
come
near
her
,
&
turning
over
the
Book
,
kep't
her
Eye
upon
that
passage
of
Holy
Scripture
.
Job
.
27.18
.
And
pointing
with
her
Finger
at
the
place
'
and
shaking
her
Head
;
turn'd
over
the
Book
again
.
And
recovering
Speech
'
said
,
I
'l
let
thee
see
where
GOD
bids
us
seek
and
we
shall
find
,
and
reading
over
the
place
said
,
it
is
GOD
that
gives
us
every
good
Gift
,
we
have
nothing
of
our
own
,
I
submit
to
his
will
tho
I
never
be
better
;
for
GOD
can
make
all
my
trouble
turn
to
my
Advantage
;
according
to
his
Word
,
Rom.
8.28
.
which
place
the
then
read
,
and
thus
continued
Reasoning
,
for
the
space
of
an
Hour
.
Sometimes
she
cry'd
out
of
violent
pain
,
by
reason
of
furious
Blows
and
Stroaks
she
had
received
from
the
Hands
of
her
Tormentors
,
the
Noise
of
which
Stroaks
by
standers
distinctly
heard
,
tho
they
perceiv'd
not
the
Hands
that
gave
them
.
One
Night
the
Girle
fitting
with
her
Parents
and
others
cry'd
out
.
something
was
wounding
her
Thigh
.
Upon
which
,
instantly
her
Mother
puting
her
Hand
in
the
Damsels
pocket
,
found
her
folding
Knife
open'd
,
which
had
been
folded
,
when
put
in
her
Pocket
,
but
her
Uncle
not
trusting
the
thing
;
did
again
put
up
the
Knife
and
leaving
it
folden
in
her
pock't
on
a
sudden
she
cry'd
out
as
before
,
the
Knife
was
cutting
her
Thigh
,
being
unfolded
by
the
means
of
I.
P.
and
others
,
as
she
said
:
Upon
which
her
Uncle
searching
her
Pocket
,
again
found
the
Knife
open'd
as
formerly
.
This
happened
twice
or
thrice
to
the
Administation
of
the
Beholders
,
tho
they
took
special
Notice
that
she
nor
any
other
visible
Hand
opened
it
.
January
25th
.
She
was
again
seizd
with
her
Swooning
stiff
Fits
,
with
this
remarkable
Variation
;
her
Throat
was
sometimes
most
prodigiously
extended
,
and
sometimes
as
strangely
Contracted
and
Convel'd
,
so
that
she
appeard
in
palpable
danger
of
being
Choak't
,
and
through
the
violence
of
pain
in
her
Throat
and
difficulty
of
Breathing
struggled
with
her
Feet
and
Hands
,
as
〈◊〉
some
had
been
actually
Strangling
her
,
and
could
Speak
or
Cry
none
;
with
which
kind
of
Fits
she
was
frequently
seiz'd
for
several
days
;
and
in
the
intervals
did
declare
that
the
fore-mention'd
persons
,
and
other
(
whom
she
could
not
get
then
nom'd
)
were
strangling
her
,
and
that
the
occasion
of
her
not
having
power
to
speak
or
cry
in
the
Fit
,
was
a
Ball
in
her
Throat
,
which
also
was
visible
to
spectators
;
for
they
did
clearly
discern
a
Bunch
in
her
Throat
(
while
in
the
Fit
)
as
bigg
as
a
Pullets
Egg
which
had
almost
Choak't
her
.
Sometimes
she
was
kep't
from
eating
her
Meat
;
having
her
Teeth
sett
,
when
she
carried
any
food
to
her
Mouth
.
Diverse
times
also
she
was
kept
from
Drinking
,
when
at
Meat
;
for
no
sooner
could
she
taste
the
Drink
,
but
she
was
in
hazard
to
be
Choak't
thereby
,
and
her self
sometimes
would
have
held
the
Cup
so
hard
betwixt
her
Teeth
,
that
it
was
not
in
the
power
of
those
with
her
to
unloose
it
.
And
when
any
thing
had
fallen
out
amiss
in
the
place
where
she
was
,
as
the
falling
and
breaking
of
a
Cup
,
and
Body's
receiving
harm
,
and
such
like
.
She
would
fall
a
laughing
and
rejoyce
extremely
;
which
kind
of
Jollity
was
for
from
the
Girl
's
temper
when
at
her self
.
February
1st
.
She
Essaying
to
tell
some
things
she
had
been
forbidden
by
her
Tormentors
to
make
known
,
was
handled
with
intolerable
Torments
.
At
the
beginning
of
her
Fits
usually
she
would
be
kep't
odly
looking
;
sometimes
toward
the
Chimney
,
sometimes
towards
other
particular
places
in
the
Room
,
but
could
not
always
tell
what
she
saw
;
yet
for
ordinary
she
'd
Name
such
and
such
Persons
,
who
,
she
said
were
then
come
to
cast
her
into
Fits
.
And
when
any
desired
her
to
cry
to
the
LORD
JESUS
for
help
,
her
Teech
were
instantly
sett
closs
,
her
Eyes
tuisted
almost
round
in
her
Head
,
and
she
was
thrown
upon
the
Floo
with
the
stiffness
,
&
posture
of
one
that
had
been
some
days
laid
for
Dead
:
And
on
a
sudden
recovered
again
,
and
would
weep
bitterly
,
to
remember
what
had
befal'n
her
.
The
same
day
,
when
her
Fits
were
over
,
she
said
,
she
now
perceiv'd
it
was
by
the
means
of
a
Charm
,
that
such
Restraints
were
laid
upon
her
that
she
could
not
tell
what
the
Witches
had
forbidden
her
to
make
known
,
but
the
Charm
might
be
found
out
(
as
she
said
)
by
searching
for
it
beneath
the
Bed
where
she
lay
;
and
she
having
quickly
done
this
her self
,
found
(
to
the
apprehension
of
Spectators
)
beneath
the
foresaid
Bed
,
an
inteir
Egg-shell
open
in
the
end
,
which
being
in
stantly
thrown
into
the
Fire
,
did
melt
away
after
the
manner
of
Wax
.
without
any
such
Noise
as
Egg-shells
use
to
make
when
burning
in
the
Fire
.
After
this
the
Girle
said
,
she
would
not
now
be
handled
so
severely
,
upon
Essaying
to
make
known
what
the
Witches
had
forbidden
her
to
tell
,
only
her
Tongue
would
be
drawn
back
into
her
Throat
,
which
accordingly
happened
.
She
did
like
ways
inform
her
Friends
of
many
things
she
had
not
liberty
to
do
before
the
Charm
was
found
out
,
particularly
that
her
Tormentors
had
frequently
solicited
her
to
become
a
Witch
her self
,
and
promised
her
great
Riches
,
and
perfect
Health
also
,
to
induce
her
thereunto
.
Which
Tentation
,
she
through
the
infinit
Mercy
of
GOD
still
resisted
,
reasoning
with
them
after
this
manner
The
Devil
promises
what
he
cannot
perform
,
and
granting
he
could
fulfill
his
promises
;
yet
I
am
sure
from
the
Scriptures
,
Hell
and
the
wrath
of
GOD
will
be
the
final
reward
of
all
such
as
yeild
to
this
Wickedness
.
To
which
the
receiv'd
this
reply
(
which
indeed
none
but
her self
perceiv'd
)
that
Hell
and
the
wratch
of
GOD
so
much
talk't
of
,
was
not
so
formidable
as
was
represented
.
She
also
said
,
the
Witches
had
Importunately
urged
her
to
give
them
her
Consent
,
to
take
away
the
Life
of
her
young
Sister
,
who
was
at
that
time
upon
her
Mothers
breast
;
which
Tentation
also
she
was
enabled
thorow
the
Grace
of
God
to
resist
.
She
told
her
Parents
likeways
,
there
had
been
a
Charm
laid
upon
the
top
of
the
House
where
her
young
Sister
was
(
the
Child
having
been
sent
out
a
nursing
,
by
reason
of
the
continued
Affliction
of
the
Family
)
and
that
the
Charm
had
been
plac'd
upon
the
top
of
the
House
by
pinch'd
Maggi
,
who
thereby
did
design
the
taking
away
of
her
Sisters
Life
;
and
that
this
was
the
Cause
why
she
had
so
often
for
some
Weeks
before
desired
her
Mother
to
bring
home
her
Sister
,
constantly
affirming
,
that
the
Child
would
daily
decay
as
long
as
she
stayed
there
:
Whereupon
her
Parents
observing
the
daily
decay
of
the
Infant
;
even
to
Skin
and
Bone
,
brought
her
home
,
where
she
recovered
.
And
the
Girle
being
asked
how
she
came
to
the
knowledge
of
these
things
?
Reply'd
,
some
thing
speaking
distinctly
as
it
were
above
her
Head
,
had
suggested
these
&
other
things
of
that
Nature
to
her
.
February
2d
.
The
Girle
being
in
the
Chamber
with
her
Mother
and
others
,
was
on
a
sudden
struck
with
great
Fear
and
Consternation
;
and
fell
a
trembling
upon
the
sight
of
John
Lindsay
in
Barcloch
,
talking
with
her
Father
in
the
Hall
.
She
said
to
her
Mother
,
the
foresaid
Lindsay
had
been
always
one
of
her
most
violent
Tormentors
,
and
that
she
had
been
threatned
with
extreme
Tortures
,
if
she
should
offer
to
Name
him
;
whereupon
she
was
desired
to
go
toward
the
place
where
he
was
,
and
touch
some
part
of
his
Body
in
a
way
unknown
to
him
,
which
she
having
done
with
some
Aversation
,
was
in
stantly
seiz'd
with
extreme
Tortures
in
all
the
parts
of
her
Body
.
After
which
Lindsay
was
put
to
it
,
and
Interrogat
thereupon
;
but
he
giving
no
satisfying
Answer
,
was
desir'd
to
take
the
Damsel
by
the
Hand
,
which
he
being
unwillingly
induc'd
to
do
,
she
was
immediatly
upon
his
Touch
cast
into
intolerable
Anguishes
,
her
Eyes
being
almost
twisted
round
in
her
Head
,
and
all
the
parts
of
her
Body
becoming
Rigid
and
stiff
,
fell
down
in
the
posture
of
one
that
had
been
laid
for
some
days
Dead
,
and
afterwards
got
up
in
a
sudden
,
and
tearing
her
Cloaths
,
threw
her self
with
violence
upon
him
,
and
when
her
Fits
were
over
,
Spectators
did
also
take
the
Damsel
by
the
Hand
;
yet
no
such
effect
followed
.
About
Six
at
Night
there
came
an
Old
Highland
fellow
to
Bargarran
,
who
calling
himself
a
wear
traveller
,
said
he
behoov'd
to
Lodge
there
that
Night
,
but
the
Servants
refusing
him
Lodging
,
gave
him
something
be
way
of
Alins
.
At
this
time
the
Damsel
being
in
the
Chamber
with
her
Mother
and
another
Gentle
woman
,
said
to
her
best
apprehension
there
was
one
of
the
wicked
Crew
in
or
about
the
House
at
that
time
;
whereupon
her
Mother
made
haft
with
her
Daughter
down
flaars
toward
the
Kitchen
.
And
finding
there
unexpectedly
the
Highland
fellow
,
whom
the
Girle
then
accused
as
one
of
her
Tormentors
,
she
desired
the
Highland
fellow
to
take
her
Daughter
by
the
Hand
,
which
he
being
urg'd
to
do
,
the
Girle
immediatly
upon
his
Touch
was
grievously
Tormented
in
all
the
parts
of
her
body
And
this
falling
out
in
divine
providence
,
Ba●garran
caus'd
secure
him
.
The
next
Morning
the
Minister
having
come
to
Bargarran
to
visit
the
Damsel
,
and
the
matter
being
imparted
to
him
,
called
for
the
Hi●hland
fellow
,
and
having
question'd
him
to
and
again
about
this
Matter
without
any
satisfying
Answer
,
brought
the
Child
our
of
the
Chamber
covering
her
Face
,
and
almost
her
whole
Body
with
his
Cloak
,
and
giving
signs
to
the
Highland
fellow
to
touch
her
in
this
posture
,
as
he
had
ordered
him
before
,
without
the
Damsels
knowledge
,
which
he
having
done
with
●reat
Aversion
the
Girle
not
knowing
of
his
touch
,
was
instantly
cast
into
intollerable
Agonys
as
formerly
;
yet
others
afterwards
touching
her
,
no
such
event
followed
.
And
when
her
Fits
were
over
she
besought
the
Highland
fellow
to
allow
her
the
Liberty
for
to
discover
and
tell
Persons
that
Haunted
and
Molested
her
,
whom
he
had
forbidden
her
to
make
known
:
Upon
which
the
old
Fellow
looking
at
her
with
an
angry
Countenance
,
her
Mouth
was
instantly
stop't
,
and
her
Teeth
sett
:
But
being
desired
by
those
present
to
speak
her
mind
freely
;
whether
he
would
or
not
,
at
length
reply'd
,
she
fear'd
to
do
it
.
And
when
thorow
the
importunity
of
the
Lairds
of
Dargavel
and
Porterfield
of
Fulwood
,
and
some
other
Gentlemen
there
present
,
the
Essay'd
to
declare
her
mind
,
she
was
seiz'd
with
her
Fits
again
.
Before
this
time
,
the
lamentable
Case
of
the
afflicted
Damsel
and
Family
had
been
represented
to
His
Majesty's
most
Honourable
Privy
Council
,
who
,
upon
serious
Application
made
to
them
,
worthily
and
piously
granted
a
Commission
to
a
Noble
Lord
and
some
worthy
Gentlemen
,
to
make
enquiry
into
the
same
.
By
vertue
of
this
Commission
some
suspected
persons
were
seiz'd
;
particularly
February
4.
Alexander
Anderson
(
an
Ignorant
,
Irreligious
Fellow
,
who
had
been
always
of
evil
Fame
,
and
accused
by
the
afflicted
Damsel
)
by
a
special
Order
from
the
Commissioners
for
Enquiry
,
was
apprehended
and
commined
to
Prison
;
as
was
also
Elizabeth
Anderson
his
Daughter
,
upon
flagrant
Presumptions
of
Witchcraft
;
for
the
other
Year
Jean
Fulton
her
Grand-mother
,
an
old
scandalous
Woman
,
being
cited
before
the
Kirk
Session
,
and
accus'd
for
hideous
Cursing
,
and
imprecating
Mischief
upon
several
●ersons
,
which
had
been
followed
with
fatal
Events
;
the
fore-mentioned
Elizabeth
Anderson
her
Grand-child
,
who
liv'd
in
the
House
with
her
,
did
declare
before
the
Session
,
she
had
frequently
seen
the
Devil
in
company
with
her
Grand
mother
,
in
the
likeness
of
a
small
black
Man
,
who
usually
did
evanish
on
a
sudden
within
the
Walls
of
the
House
,
when
any
Body
came
to
the
Door
.
Upon
this
Presumption
was
the
said
Elizabeth
Anderson
seiz'd
with
her
Father
,
and
committed
to
Custody
;
but
at
first
most
obstinatly
denied
accession
any
manner
of
way
to
the
Sin
of
Witchcraft
,
until
afterwards
,
when
seriously
importun'd
and
dealt
with
in
the
Prison
by
two
Gentlemen
,
did
,
before
she
came
to
Bargarran's
House
,
confess
her
Guilt
,
without
Bargarran's
knowledge
at
that
time
.
And
that
she
had
been
at
several
meetings
with
the
Devil
and
Witches
,
and
amongst
others
,
she
did
delate
her
own
Father
,
and
the
fore-mentioned
High-land
Fellow
to
have
been
active
Instruments
of
the
Girle
's
Trouble
;
and
gave
,
before
she
was
confronted
with
him
,
exact
marks
of
this
Highland
body
,
and
tho
she
declar'd
she
knew
not
his
Name
;
yet
when
confronted
with
him
did
accuse
him
,
and
affirm
he
was
the
person
she
spoke
of
.
February
5th
.
A
Quorum
of
the
commissioners
being
met
at
Bargarran
,
and
the
persons
then
delated
by
Elizabeth
Anderson
to
have
been
at
Meetings
with
the
Devil
,
and
active
instruments
of
the
Damsels
Trouble
,
Viz
,
Alexander
Anderson
her
Father
,
Agnes
Nasmith
,
Margaret
Fultoun
,
James
Lindsay
alias
Curat
,
John
Lindsay
alias
Bishop
,
Katharine
Camphel
,
were
all
of
them
(
excepting
John
Lindsay
alias
Bishop
,
who
was
not
then
apprehended
)
confronted
with
Christian
Shaw
before
the
Lord
Blantyr●
and
the
rest
of
the
Commissioners
at
Bargarran
,
and
several
other
Gentlemen
of
Note
and
Ministers
then
present
.
and
accused
by
her
as
her
Tormentors
.
And
they
having
all
severally
touched
her
i●
presence
of
the
Commissioners
,
she
was
at
each
of
their
touches
seiz'd
with
grievous
Fits
,
and
cast
into
intolerable
Anguishes
,
others
then
present
also
touching
her
the
same
way
,
but
no
such
Effect
followed
.
And
it
is
remarkable
,
when
Katharine
Camphel
touched
the
Girle
,
she
was
immediatly
upon
her
touch
seiz'd
with
more
grievous
Fits
,
and
cast
into
more
intolerable
Torments
then
what
followed
upon
the
touch
of
the
other
accused
persons
,
whereat
Camphel
herself
being
Damped
and
Confounded
,
tho
she
had
formerly
declined
to
Blessher
,
uttered
these
words
;
The
Lord
God
of
Heaven
&
Earth
Blesithee
,
&
save
that
both
Soul
&
Body
;
after
which
the
Damsel
when
the
Fits
were
over
,
in
which
she
had
lyen
a
most
pitiful
Spectacle
did
declare
she
was
now
loos'd
,
&
that
the
might
freely
touch
any
of
the
accus'd
persons
,
or
they
her
after
this
without
trouble
,
which
accordingly
upon
tryal
fell
so
out
,
and
being
enquired
how
she
came
to
the
knowledge
of
that
,
answered
as
formerly
in
the
like
Case
,
That
some
thing
speaking
distinctly
as
it
were
above
her
Head
,
suggested
this
to
her
;
And
likewise
,
usually
gave
her
the
knowledge
of
the
Names
of
her
Tormentors
,
and
Places
in
which
they
liv'd
.
February
6.
The
Girle
being
sez'd
with
sore
Fits
,
some
thing
was
seen
in
her
Mouth
,
to
the
Judgdment
of
Spectators
like
pieces
of
Orange
Pills
invisibly
convey'd
into
her
Mouth
,
which
she
seem'd
in
her
Agonys
to
be
Chewing
,
and
having
got
down
her
Throat
,
as
those
present
apprehended
,
she
did
fall
down
Dead
and
stiff
,
as
if
she
had
been
Choak't
struggling
with
her
●eet
and
Hands
,
as
if
at
the
last
Gasp
,
her
Throat
swelling
in
a
Prodigious
manner
;
to
the
affrightment
of
Spectators
,
and
when
recovered
,
but
yet
in
the
light
Fit
;
she
'd
say
,
O
it
was
a
very
sweet
Orange
Fill
which
I
got
from
the
Gentlewoman
,
and
did
constantly
affirm
the
same
,
declaring
also
that
there
had
been
others
there
present
with
the
Gentlewoman
,
particularly
Margaret
L.
or
pinch't
Maggi
,
whose
Sirname
she
had
neither
Power
nor
Liberty
to
express
,
neither
durst
she
offer
to
do
it
,
lest
she
should
be
Tormented
as
was
throatned
,
and
alwayes
fell
out
when
she
Essay'd
to
do
it
,
either
by
speaking
or
writing
,
which
had
appear'd
the
day
before
in
presence
of
the
Commissioners
.
About
this
time
,
Thomas
Lindsay
a
young
Boy
not
yet
Twelve
Years
of
Age
,
was
sez'd
,
upon
slagran
;
Presumptions
of
Witchcraft
;
he
had
said
before
several
credible
Persons
,
the
Devil
was
his
Father
,
and
if
he
pleas'd
he
could
fly
in
the
likeness
or
a
Crow
upon
the
Mast
of
a
Ship
,
he
sometimes
caus'd
a
Flough
stand
&
the
Horse
break
the
Yoke
upon
the
pronouncing
of
some
words
,
and
turning
himself
about
widder-shins
;
that
is
a
turning
himself
round
from
the
right
hand
to
the
left
,
contran
to
the
Natural
course
of
the
Sun
.
This
he
would
do
upon
the
desire
of
any
Body
who
gave
him
a
half-peny
.
Upon
these
and
ther
like
flagrant
Presumptions
he
was
apprehended
,
who
at
first
tho
he
continued
most
obstinat
in
denyal
;
yet
afterwards
confess'd
to
the
Minister
in
his
own
House
before
famous
Witnesses
,
compact
with
the
Devil
,
and
that
he
had
receiv'd
the
insensible
mark
from
the
Devil
,
which
is
visible
upon
his
Body
:
As
also
,
that
he
had
been
at
several
meetings
with
the
Devil
and
Witches
,
where
he
said
were
present
,
his
Brother
James
with
others
,
and
particularly
those
who
had
been
delated
by
Anderson
.
This
he
confest
,
with
some
other
wickedness
of
this
kind
before
he
was
committed
to
Custody
in
Bargarran
house
.
After
this
Bargarran
made
diligent
fearch
for
James
Lindsay
,
elder
Brother
to
Thomas
,
having
been
all
along
accused
by
the
afflicted
Damsel
as
one
of
her
Troublers
,
whom
she
call'd
the
Glei'd
,
or
squint
Ey'd
,
Elff
(
as
he
was
indeed
)
for
that
was
the
Name
the
Crue
about
her
gave
him
,
who
when
he
was
brought
upon
the
place
,
tho'
he
did
at
first
most
obstinatly
deny
his
Guilt
,
yet
at
length
thorow
the
Endeavours
of
Mr.
Patrick
Simpson
,
a
Neighbour
Minister
,
ingenuously
confessed
the
Guilt
he
was
charged
with
,
and
in
his
Confession
did
agree
in
every
material
Circumstance
with
the
other
two
,
tho
he
knew
not
what
they
had
confest
,
he
having
not
seen
them
before
his
Confession
,
not
had
he
any
occasion
of
Information
in
conference
with
others
there-anent
,
being
immediatly
brought
to
the
place
from
the
Tolbooth
of
Glasgow
,
where
he
had
been
some
Weeks
before
that
time
in
Prison
as
a
vagabond
Begger
,
upon
a
design
to
have
sent
him
to
Forreign
Flantations
.
A
more
particular
Account
of
what
they
freely
Confess'd
and
Acknowledg'd
before
the
Commissioners
for
Enquiry
,
we
have
for
the
satisfaction
of
the
Reader
subjoin'd
to
the
Narrative
;
with
an
Abstract
of
the
Report
made
by
the
Commissioners
,
to
the
Lords
of
His
Majesty's
most
Honourable
Privy
Council
,
concerning
the
whole
Affair
.
February
11.
There
was
by
the
Presbitry's
appointment
a
publick
Fast
kept
upon
the
Damsels
account
in
the
Church
of
Eriki●e
,
in
which
Mr.
Turner
Minister
of
the
place
begun
the
Work
with
Prayer
,
expounding
Rev.
12.
from
Ver.
7.
to
Ver.
13.
Mr.
James
Hutchison
Minister
at
Killellan
took
the
next
turn
of
Prayer
,
and
did
preach
upon
1
Pet.
5.8
.
and
Mr.
Simpson
concluded
the
Work
,
preaching
upon
Mat.
17.20
,
21.
where
the
Girl
was
present
all
day
;
but
before
she
came
to
Church
that
Morning
she
told
,
that
while
she
was
in
one
of
her
Fits
the
Night
before
,
she
heard
the
Devil
speaking
of
that
publick
Fast
,
and
what
Ministers
were
to
be
there
,
and
that
old
Man
Mr.
James
Hutchison
should
stumble
,
and
his
Peruick
fall
off
as
he
went
up
to
the
pulpit
,
and
all
the
people
should
laugh
at
him
,
and
he
should
break
his
neck
in
going
home
.
And
when
she
came
out
of
the
Church
after
the
Fotenoon's
Work
,
she
said
,
the
Devil
was
a
Liar
,
for
no
such
thing
fell
out
as
he
had
threatned
.
She
was
all
day
very
quiet
in
Church
;
altho
being
in
some
of
her
light
Fits
some
Spectres
appear'd
in
time
of
the
publick
Work
,
which
she
told
of
thereafter
.
About
six
at
Night
there
were
present
in
the
Chamber
with
the
Damsel
,
Mr.
Simpson
with
his
Wife
,
Lady
Northbarr
and
others
,
discoursing
and
conferring
about
her
Case
;
and
while
they
were
thus
conferring
together
,
she
told
them
,
she
would
gladly
make
some
things
known
if
she
durst
for
her
Tormenters
;
and
afterwards
essaying
to
do
it
,
was
instantly
seiz'd
with
a
violent
Fit
;
in
which
she
leapt
straight
up
,
and
appear'd
as
if
she
had
been
choak'd
,
so
that
it
was
as
much
as
one
or
two
could
do
,
to
hold
her
fast
in
their
Arms
:
And
when
the
Fit
was
over
,
Mr.
Simpson
going
about
Family
Worship
,
did
expound
Psalm
110.
and
speaking
of
the
limited
power
of
the
Adversaries
of
our
Lord
JESVS
CHRIST
,
from
the
latter
part
of
Ver
1
she
was
on
a
sudden
seiz'd
with
another
grievous
Fit
,
in
which
she
put
out
of
her
Mouth
some
Blood
,
which
rais'd
Grounds
of
Fear
and
Jealousy
in
the
Minds
of
Spectators
,
that
something
in
her
Mouth
hurting
her
had
been
the
occasion
of
it
;
yet
they
could
not
get
her
Mouth
opened
,
tho
they
used
means
to
open
the
same
,
her
Teeth
being
closs
set
.
And
in
the
interval
of
the
Fit
she
being
ask'd
,
if
she
found
any
thing
in
her
Mouth
that
had
been
the
occasion
of
her
putting
out
of
Blood
;
she
reply'd
,
she
found
nothing
,
not
knew
the
Cause
thereof
;
but
opening
her
mouth
,
those
present
found
one
of
her
double
Teeth
newly
drawn
cut
,
but
knew
not
what
became
of
the
Tooth
;
for
tho'
search
was
made
for
the
same
,
it
could
not
be
found
:
After
which
the
Minister
proceeded
upon
the
same
subject
,
but
was
again
interrupted
by
her
renewed
Fit
,
yet
closed
the
Exercise
with
Prayer
,
after
which
,
without
more
trouble
,
she
was
taken
to
her
Bed
.
February
12.
Margaret
Laing
and
her
Daughter
Martha
Semple
,
being
delated
by
the
three
Confessants
,
and
accused
by
the
Girl
to
have
been
active
Instruments
in
her
Trouble
,
came
of
their
own
accord
to
Bargarran's
House
,
and
before
they
came
up
Stairs
the
Girl
said
,
she
was
now
bound
up
,
and
could
not
accuse
Margaret
Laing
to
her
Face
:
And
accordingly
the
Giri's
Mother
having
desired
some
of
those
who
were
sitting
by
her
to
feel
some
parts
of
her
Body
,
and
they
having
done
it
,
found
her
Body
so
stiff
and
inflexible
,
that
there
was
no
moving
of
it
,
and
immediatly
again
found
some
parts
of
her
Body
contracted
and
drawn
hard
togethe
,
as
if
by
Cords
;
after
this
Margaret
Lang
and
her
Daughter
,
having
gone
to
the
Chamber
to
the
Girle
,
did
in
presence
of
the
Ministers
and
others
,
desire
the
Damsel
to
come
to
her
;
for
she
would
do
her
no
Harm
,
and
laying
her
Arms
about
her
,
spake
very
faisly
to
her
,
and
question'd
her
if
ever
she
had
seen
her
or
her
Daughter
amongst
her
Tormentors
,
to
which
the
Girle
did
positively
reply
,
she
had
frequently
seen
her
Daughter
;
but
declined
thorow
fear
to
accuse
her self
,
saying
faintly
No
;
after
which
Margaret
and
her
Daughter
returning
into
the
Hall
,
and
the
Minister
enquiring
at
her
why
she
said
No
,
seeing
she
had
accus'd
her
before
,
she
answered
,
take
me
contrar
,
upon
which
she
was
seiz'd
with
a
grievous
fit
;
yet
after
her
recovery
being
urg'd
again
by
those
present
to
tell
her
Mind
freely
,
whether
or
not
Margaret
Lang
was
one
of
her
Tormentors
the
Child
thereupon
Essaying
to
say
Yes
,
and
having
half
pronounced
the
Word
,
was
cast
into
unexpressible
Anguishes
;
and
again
in
the
interval
of
the
Fit
,
she
Essay'd
to
express
the
same
thing
,
and
saying
only
the
word
Tint
(
that
is
lost
)
was
on
a
sudden
struck
with
another
fit
,
and
when
the
fit
was
over
,
and
the
Child
returned
to
the
Chamber
,
Margaret
Lang
who
was
sitting
near
the
Hall
door
,
spoke
these
words
after
her
.
The
Lord
blessthee
,
and
ding
(
that
is
beat
,
or
drive
)
t●e
Devil
us
of
thee
.
A
little
after
which
words
,
Margaret
going
down
stairs
,
the
Damsel
came
to
the
Hall
and
said
,
her
Bonds
were
now
loos'd
,
and
that
now
she
could
accuse
Margaret
Lang
to
her
Face
,
and
declar'd
the
occasion
of
her
being
so
Restrain'd
and
Bound
up
while
Margaret
was
present
,
was
her
letting
fall
a
parcel
of
Hair
at
the
Hall
door
as
she
came
in
;
being
a
Charm
made
by
her
for
that
end
,
which
also
had
been
the
occasion
of
her
uttering
the
word
Tin●
in
the
former
fit
:
And
accordingly
a
parcel
of
Hair
had
been
found
at
the
Hall-door
,
after
Margaret
Lang
had
gone
straight
from
the
Hall
to
the
Chamber
,
which
immediatly
was
cast
into
the
Fire
and
burnt
.
And
its
remarkable
,
that
it
could
be
attested
that
there
was
no
Hair
,
or
any
other
thing
else
in
that
place
before
Margaret
Lang
came
in
,
and
the
Girle
being
enquired
,
what
way
she
knew
Margaret
Lang
had
laid
the
forementioned
Charm
upon
her
,
replyed
,
something
speaking
distinctly
to
her
as
it
were
above
her
Head
,
had
suggested
that
to
her
.
About
Eight
at
Night
she
was
severely
handled
in
her
Fits
,
much
after
the
former
manner
,
and
while
she
was
in
her
swooning
Fits
,
there
was
seen
in
her
Mouth
a
Pin
,
where
with
she
seem'd
almost
Choak't
;
but
by
divine
providence
it
was
with
great
difficulty
got
out
.
After
this
she
was
somewhat
composed
,
and
did
not
much
complain
of
pain
;
but
was
distinctly
heard
to
entertain
discourse
with
some
invisible
Creatures
about
her
,
and
the
Reply's
given
by
her
,
and
he●rd
by
those
who
took
care
of
her
,
gave
them
ground
to
conclude
she
was
tempted
to
set
her
Hand
to
a
Paper
then
presented
to
her
,
with
Promises
that
upon
her
yielding
thereunto
she
should
never
be
troubled
any
more
;
as
also
that
●ue
should
get
sweet
meats
,
a
drink
of
Sack
,
a
bonny
handsome
Coat
with
silver
Lace
:
She
was
also
distinctly
heard
say
,
resisting
the
Tempter
,
Thou
art
a
filthy
Sow
,
should
〈◊〉
obey
thee
;
this
was
not
the
end
of
my
Creation
,
but
to
Glorify
GOD
and
enjoy
Him
for
ever
;
and
thou
promisest
what
thou
canst
not
perform
:
Art
thou
angry
at
me
for
saving
thou
Sow
,
what
should
I
call
thee
but
thou
filthy
Sow
?
Art
thou
not
the
filthy
Devil
,
for
as
brave
as
thou
art
with
thy
Silver
and
Gold
Lace
?
Wouldst
thou
have
me
Renounce
my
Baptism
?
Dost
thou
promise
to
give
me
brave
Men
in
Marriage
,
and
sine
Cloaths
,
and
perfect
Health
,
if
I
should
consent
thereunto
?
Dost
thou
say
my
Baptism
will
do
me
no
good
,
because
thou
alledgest
he
was
not
a
sufficient
Minister
that
baptized
me
?
thou
art
a
Liar
,
I
'll
be
content
to
die
cre
I
rendunce
my
Baptism
.
O
thorow
the
Grace
of
GOD
I
'll
never
do
it
.
And
thus
she
continued
Reasoning
,
being
both
Blind
and
Deaf
,
for
the
space
of
two
Hours
;
and
when
she
came
to
herself
did
declare
it
was
the
Devil
,
who
first
presented
himself
tempting
her
in
the
shape
of
a
Sow
,
to
Renounce
her
Baptism
,
as
is
hinted
;
and
that
he
did
chide
her
when
she
call'd
him
,
thou
Sow
,
and
immediatly
appear'd
to
her
again
in
the
shape
of
a
brave
Gentleman
,
as
having
Gold
and
Silver
Lace
on
his
Cloaths
,
still
urging
her
to
renounce
her
Baptism
,
which
Tentation
she
thorow
the
special
assistance
of
the
Grace
of
GOD
effectually
resisted
:
she
also
said
,
that
it
had
been
suggested
to
her
by
the
Spirit
,
speaking
to
her
as
it
were
above
her
Head
,
after
the
Combat
with
the
Tempter
was
over
,
that
one
of
her
Tormentors
would
be
at
the
House
the
Morrow
.
February
1●
.
She
was
seiz●d
with
a
sore
fit
about
Twelve
a
Clock
of
the
day
,
in
which
she
continued
for
more
than
two
Hours
space
,
both
Deaf
and
Blind
.
Those
in
the
Room
with
her
crying
to
her
with
a
loud
Voice
,
and
pinching
her
Hands
and
other
part
of
her
Body
;
but
all
to
no
purpose
.
And
in
this
po●ure
was
hurried
To
and
Fro
with
violence
thorow
the
Room
:
And
when
any
●o●y
by
force
offer'd
to
hinder
the
daugerous
and
violent
Motion
she
seem'd
to
be
upon
,
she
'd
Roar
exceedingly
,
sometimes
she
'd
desire
her
Father
and
Mother
and
others
●o
come
and
take
her
Home
(
supposing
her self
not
to
be
in
her
Fa●he●s
House
)
when
the
G●●ie
was
in
this
deplorable
Condition
,
Margaret
●oger
who
liv
d
in
the
Nig●bour-hood
,
came
to
the
House
of
Bargarran
enquiring
for
the
Lady
;
and
having
come
up
stairs
,
the
Parents
of
the
Damsel
remembering
what
the
Girle
had
said
the
Night
before
,
that
one
of
her
Tormentors
was
to
come
that
day
to
the
House
,
brought
Margaret
Roger
to
the
Chamber
where
the
Gitle
was
,
and
so
soon
as
she
entered
the
Door
;
the
Damsel
tho
she
could
discern
none
of
these
who
were
present
with
her
,
nor
answer
them
when
they
cry'd
to
her
;
yet
presently
saw
her
and
ran
towards
her
crying
,
Maggi
,
Maggi
,
where
hast
thou
been
?
wilt
thou
take
me
with
thee
,
for
my
Father
and
Mother
have
left
me
.
Whereupon
Spectators
being
astonish'd
,
caus'd
Margaret
speak
to
the
Child
,
which
she
having
done
,
the
Girl
distinctly
heard
and
answered
her
every
word
.
After
this
,
the
Three
Confestants
were
also
brought
up
to
the
Chamber
where
the
Damsel
was
,
and
as
soon
as
they
entered
the
Door
,
she
ran
also
to
them
laughing
as
if
she
had
been
overjoy'd
,
answering
them
when
they
spoke
to
her
:
and
Margaret
Roger
there
present
,
being
confrented
with
the
Confessants
:
They
did
declare
,
that
she
had
been
at
Meetings
with
the
Devil
and
Witches
in
Bargarrans
Orchard
,
consulting
and
contriving
Christian
Shaw's
ruine
.
The
LORDS
Day
following
,
being
February
14.
After
some
short
intervals
she
was
again
seiz'd
with
her
fits
,
in
which
she
said
,
Margaret
Lang
and
her
Daughter
Martha
Simple
,
were
Tormenting
her
and
cutting
her
Throat
;
which
words
thorow
violence
of
Pain
,
and
difficulty
of
Breathing
,
she-uttered
with
a
ow
and
hardly
audible
Voice
,
and
upon
the
naming
of
Margaret
Lang
and
her
Daughter
,
she
was
tost'd
and
dreadfully
Tormented
in
all
the
parts
of
her
Body
,
being
made
sometimes
to
stand
upon
her
Head
and
Feet
at
once
,
sometimes
her
Belly
swelling
like
a
Drum
;
and
falling
again
in
a
sudden
,
and
sometimes
her
Head
and
other
parts
of
her
Body
were
like
to
be
shaken
in
pieces
,
so
that
Spectators
fear'd
she
would
never
speak
more
.
And
when
the
fit
was
over
,
she
declar'd
,
Margaret
Lang
said
to
her
while
in
the
fit
,
That
she
would
give
her
a
T●s●y
(
which
imports
hot
and
severe
handling
)
for
naming
her
.
At
this
time
she
was
seldom
free
of
her
light
fits
,
which
for
most
part
were
all
the
respite
and
ease
she
had
from
the
unexpressible
Agonys
she
e●dur'd
in
her
more
grievous
fits
;
unless
when
asleep
:
and
while
she
was
in
these
fits
,
no
Body
could
perswade
her
to
pray
,
yet
when
in
a
right
composure
of
Mind
and
perfectly
at
her self
,
she
'd
weep
bitterly
to
remember
this
,
espressing
her
fears
,
left
that
might
be
any
evidence
GOD
would
for
sake
her
.
February
18.
About
two
in
the
Afternoon
,
she
being
in
the
light
fit
,
said
,
The
Devil
now
appear'd
to
her
in
the
shape
of
a
Man
;
whereupon
she
being
struck
with
great
Fear
and
Consternation
,
was
desir'd
to
Pray
with
an
audible
Voice
,
The
Lord
rebuke
thee
Satan
;
which
she
Essaying
to
do
,
instantly
lost
power
of
speech
,
her
Teeth
being
sert
,
and
her
Tongue
drawn
back
into
her
Throat
,
and
she
Essaying
again
,
was
immediatly
seiz'd
with
another
grivous
fit
;
in
which
her
Eyes
being
twisted
almost
cound
in
her
Head
;
she
fe●●●own
as
one
Dead
,
strugling
with
Feet
and
Hands
,
and
again
getting
up
on
a
sudden
,
was
hurried
with
violence
Too
and
Fro
thorow
the
Room
Deaf
and
Blind
;
yet
was
speaking
with
some
invisible
Creatures
about
her
saying
,
with
the
Lords
strongth
thou
shalt
neither
put
Straw
nor
Sticks
into
my
Mouth
.
After
this
she
cry'd
in
a
pit●ful
manner
,
the
Bumbee
hath
sting'd
me
,
then
presently
sitting
down
and
loosing
her
Stocking
,
put
her
Hand
to
that
part
which
had
been
Nip't
or
Pinch't
,
Thereupon
Spectators
did
visibly
discern
the
lively
marks
of
Nails
of
Fingers
deeply
imprinted
on
that
same
part
of
her
Leg.
And
when
she
came
to
her self
▪
she
did
declare
,
That
something
speaking
to
her
a●
it
were
above
her
Head
;
told
her
it
was
M.
M.
in
a
Nighbouring
Parish
(
nameing
the
place
)
that
had
appear'd
to
her
,
and
pinch't
her
Leg
in
the
likness
of
a
Bumbee
.
She
likewise
did
declare
,
that
the
forementioned
M.
M.
instantly
after
this
had
been
suggested
to
her
,
appeared
in
her
own
shape
and
likness
as
she
us'd
to
be
at
other
times
.
Shortly
after
this
being
still
seiz'd
with
her
light
fit
,
she
whisper'd
in
her
Mothers
Ear.
The
Devil
was
now
appearing
to
her
again
in
the
shape
of
a
Gentleman
:
And
being
instantly
seiz'd
with
her
fits
,
in
which
she
was
both
Blind
and
Deaf
,
was
distinctly
heard
arguing
after
this
manner
.
Thou
think'st
to
tempt
me
to
be
a
Witch
;
but
thorow
GOD's
strongth
thou
shalt
never
be
the
better
:
I
charge
th●●
in
the
Name
of
GOD
to
be
gone
and
thy
Papers
too
,
in
the
LORDS
strength
I
'l
not
fear
thee
,
I
'l
stand
here
and
see
if
thou
can
come
one
step
nearer
me
,
I
think
thou
fear●st
me
more
th●●●
I
fear
thee
.
Then
turning
her self
again
,
she
was
hurried
To
and
Pro
with
violence
thorow
the
Room
,
as
formerly
saying
,
she
was
Bitten
or
pinch's
very
sore
in
the
Hands
with
Teeth
,
and
Nip't
with
Fingers
,
above
Twenty
four
times
;
which
constrain'd
her
to
horrid
Schreeks
,
and
out
crys
at
every
time
she
receiv'd
them
,
shewing
and
pointing
with
her
Finger
on
these
parts
of
her
Arm
and
Leg
which
had
been
Pinch't
and
Bitten
;
but
neither
saw
not
heard
any
about
her
.
And
accordingly
Spectators
did
visibly
discern
the
evident
marks
of
the
Teeth
and
Nails
of
Fingers
upon
her
Arms
and
Legs
.
In
this
posture
the
Girle
continued
from
two
to
five
in
the
Afternoon
,
and
when
her
Miserys
were
over
,
she
said
M.
M.
told
her
in
the
Fit
,
that
Margaret
Lang
then
in
custody
,
had
ordered
her
to
handle
her
after
that
manner
.
And
that
Margaret
Lang
had
a
commanding
power
over
her
.
Friday
and
Saturday
thereafter
being
February
19.
and
20.
she
was
frqeuently
seiz'd
with
the
foremention'd
fit●
and
being
violently
Bitten
Pinch't
and
Nip't
in
her
hands
neck
and
other
parts
of
her
body
,
so
that
the
clear
marks
of
the
nails
of
fingers
and
steeds
of
teeth
both
Upper
and
Lower
,
with
the
spitle
and
slaver
of
a
mouth
thereupon
were
evidently
seen
by
spectators
.
About
this
time
when
seiz'd
with
her
Blind
and
Deaf
fits
,
a
crooked
fellow
appear'd
to
her
having
his
two
feet
deform'd
his
two
heelis
wrying
inward
toward
one
another
,
and
the
fore
parts
of
his
feet
outward
from
one
another
,
so
than
the
broadside
of
his
feet
mov'd
fotemost
,
and
upon
the
appearing
of
this
fellow
her
feer
were
put
in
,
the
very
same
posture
during
the
time
he
tormented
her
.
It
is
to
be
noticed
that
there
is
a
fellow
in
one
of
the
neighbouring
parishes
,
whose
feet
are
exactly
in
that
manner
derform'd
,
who
has
been
of
a
long
time
of
evil
fame
,
and
given
up
by
the
confessants
to
have
been
seen
at
meetings
with
the
Devil
and
the
rest
of
the
crew
in
Bargarrens
Oxchard
.
Saturday
being
February
.
20.
The
whole
family
being
gone
to
bed
,
they
had
left
a
great
quantity
of
Peets
(
or
Turf
)
beside
the
hall
Chimney
,
which
the
next
morning
they
saw
them
burnt
to
ashes
,
tho
there
had
been
no
fire
in
the
Chimney
nor
near
them
,
so
that
the
plaister
and
stones
of
the
wall
where
the
Peets
or
Turfe
lay
were
in
a
great
part
turn'd
to
rubbish
thorow
the
violence
of
the
fire
but
no
other
damnage
followed
,
the
hall
floor
being
laid
with
stones
,
and
the
Peets
lying
within
the
bosome
of
a
large
Chimney
brace
.
February
27th
,
The
Chamber
fire
having
been
covered
with
ashes
in
the
Chimney
when
the
family
went
to
bed
,
the
next
morning
tho
a
good
quantity
of
ashes
had
been
left
;
yet
they
found
all
clean
sweept
away
,
and
no
appearance
of
ashes
nor
fire
there
at
all
,
albeit
none
in
the
family
that
night
nor
next
morning
had
been
thereafter
the
fire
was
gathered
,
before
this
was
observed
.
In
fits
of
this
kind
she
continued
for
several
days
thereafter
,
haming
the
foremention'd
crooked
fellow
.
J
,
R.
and
M.
A.
living
in
the
neighbouring
parishes
,
which
two
Women
were
delated
by
the
three
confessants
to
be
amongst
her
tormenters
,
and
particularly
upon
the
Lords
day
being
February
21.
and
the
Munday
following
,
the
said
J
,
R
,
appearing
to
her
grievously
vexed
her
,
withall
telling
she
was
commissionated
so
to
do
.
The
Gentle
woman
M.
M.
having
a
pain
in
her
head
at
that
time
,
and
so
not
able
to
come
forth
.
Concerning
which
it
is
worthy
of
remark
,
that
the
Damsel
declar'd
M.
M.
to
have
appeared
to
her
about
two
days
thereafter
with
her
head
bound
up
with
a
Napkin
(
or
handker
chief
)
in
which
like
habite
or
posture
,
she
did
not
formerly
appear
.
Upon
Thursday
thereafter
being
February
25
She
continued
in
the
former
fits
,
weeping
bitterly
and
complaining
of
pain
in
both
her
sides
,
she
also
told
in
the
interval
of
her
fits
,
that
she
was
that
night
to
be
in
very
grievous
and
sore
fits
,
her
tormenters
being
resolved
to
choak
her
,
by
putting
pins
in
her
mouth
,
which
(
tho
she
emptied
her self
of
all
that
were
in
her
Cloaths
)
yet
accordingly
came
to
pass
:
In
which
she
was
both
Blind
and
Deaf
,
leaping
up
and
down
in
an
extraordinary
manner
,
pulling
down
what
ever
came
to
her
Hand
,
and
this
continued
for
some
days
putting
out
of
her
Mouth
a
great
quantity
of
small
broken
Pins
,
which
she
declar'd
J.
R.
had
forc'd
into
the
same
.
Upon
the
Lords
day
being
the
last
of
February
,
about
five
a
Clock
in
the
Afternoon
she
fell
into
grie●ous
fits
,
accompained
with
Hideous
or
loud
Laughing
,
Leaping
,
and
runing
with
violence
to
and
fro
,
and
thereafter
weept
sore
,
crying
out
of
Pain
,
that
alittle
Highland
Man
,
(
whom
she
knew
to
be
such
by
his
habit
and
speech
)
was
now
breaking
her
Leg
;
which
(
because
of
pain
)
she
scarce
could
get
told
in
the
fit
,
and
putting
her
Hand
to
the
part
of
her
Leg
affected
,
Spectators
untying
her
stocking
,
distinctly
observed
a
sore
bruise
in
her
Shin-bone
;
which
when
touched
did
so
pain
her
,
that
she
uttered
horrid
Schreeks
and
Crys
;
and
when
recovered
did
declare
,
that
the
little
Highland
fellow
had
given
her
that
bruise
.
After
this
,
she
put
out
of
her
Mouth
a
crooked
Pin
,
by
which
she
told
the
fore
said
Highland
fellow
having
forc't
it
into
her
Mouth
,
design'd
to
Choak
her
.
The
first
eight
days
of
March
she
continued
in
her
former
fits
;
with
little
Variation
,
putting
out
of
her
Mouth
a
great
number
of
small
Pins
,
often
fainting
and
falling
as
Dead
upon
the
ground
on
a
sudden
,
again
strugling
with
Feet
and
Hands
;
by
all
which
her
Natural
Spirits
were
much
Weakned
and
Exhausted
;
sometimes
also
she
Essay'd
to
go
into
the
Fire
.
About
this
time
when
Ministers
and
other
Christians
met
in
the
Family
for
Prayer
,
she
us'd
at
the
beginning
of
the
work
to
make
great
disturbance
,
particularly
March
2.
which
day
being
set
a
part
for
Fasting
and
Praying
in
the
Family
,
prayer
begun
,
she
was
for
some
time
very
composed
,
untill
of
a
sudden
,
a
strong
blast
of
Wind
forced
open
the
Windows
of
the
Room
;
upon
which
she
was
instantly
seiz'd
with
a
violent
fit
,
the
Minister
in
the
very
same
time
supplicating
GOD
that
she
might
be
delivered
from
Satans
Bonds
:
In
which
fit
she
being
both
Blind
and
Deaf
as
to
All
,
except
her
Tormentors
,
was
hurried
with
violence
to
and
fro
the
Room
,
sometimes
falling
down
as
one
Dead
,
sometimes
Singing
and
making
a
Hidious
loud
Noise
,
somtimes
nameing
M.
M.
and
others
,
who
she
said
,
were
there
present
Afflicting
and
Tormenting
her
,
withall
,
nameing
the
particular
places
of
the
Room
where
she
,
saw
them
standing
and
sitting
.
After
all
which
,
when
recorered
out
of
the
fit
,
she
told
that
a
Gentlewoman
woman
and
a
little
Highland
fellow
came
in
with
the
blast
of
Wind
,
which
forc'd
open
the
Windows
.
This
falling
out
upon
the
Tuesday
,
she
continued
in
the
light
fit
without
any
Intermission
,
till
the
Sabbath
thereafter
,
not
being
seiz'd
with
any
of
her
sore
fits
:
And
having
gone
to
Church
the
Lords
day
following
,
was
perfectly
well
for
the
most
part
of
the
day
;
yet
affirmed
she
saw
Janet
Wagh
and
others
in
one
of
the
Windows
of
the
Church
,
tho
invisible
to
all
others
.
Tuesday
,
being
March
the
9th
.
Her
Mother
and
Margaret
Campbel
her
Cousin
took
the
Damsel
to
walk
with
them
in
the
Orthard
;
and
returning
back
to
the
house
,
her
Mother
entring
the
Tower
gate
first
,
the
Damsel
being
at
her
back
and
Margaret
Campbel
tarrying
a
little
while
at
the
gate
;
her
Mother
going
into
the
Kitchen
,
suppos'd
they
had
both
been
with
her
,
whereas
the
Damsel
was
of
a
sudden
carried
away
in
a
flight
up
Stairs
with
so
swis●
and
unaccountable
motion
,
that
her
absence
was
nor
in
the
least
suspected
,
but
her
Mother
turning
about
and
missing
her
,
cry'd
whither
is
Christian
and
Margaret
Campbel
?
And
instantly
runing
up
Stairs
to
look
for
the
Damsel
heard
a
noise
and
following
the
same
,
found
the
Damsel
Leaping
and
Dancing
upon
one
of
the
Stairs
being
seiz'd
with
fits
,
out
of
which
when
she
had
recovered
she
told
,
that
J.
P.
had
carried
her
away
from
her
Mothers
back
as
she
entred
the
Kitchen
door
(
her
feet
not
touching
the
ground
to
her
apprehension
)
and
that
with
a
design
to
strangle
her
in
an
high
wardrob
with
Ropes
on
which
the
Linning
us'd
to
dry
,
but
that
the
said
J.
P.
could
carry
her
no
further
then
the
place
where
she
was
found
,
and
did
therefore
leave
her
in
such
a
Violent
fir
,
Upon
the
Lords
day
thereafter
being
March
14.
Her
fits
again
altered
,
in
that
her
Mouth
and
Nose
were
prodigiously
distorted
and
turned
about
while
in
the
fit
,
herface
being
thereby
strangely
and
horridly
deform'd
.
That
same
day
she
being
in
Church
in
the
Forenoon
,
her
Glove
falling
from
her
,
the
same
was
again
put
into
her
Hand
by
some
invisible
Agent
,
to
the
Amazment
of
beholders
.
To
which
we
may
add
here
,
as
that
which
is
worthy
of
remark
,
that
all
this
while
an
Invisible
beeing
,
haunted
her
on
all
occasions
,
suggesting
many
things
unto
her
,
both
concerning
her self
and
others
;
but
yet
never
heard
by
any
but
her self
.
The
same
day
betwixt
Sermons
,
she
told
that
she
was
to
be
violently
Tormented
in
the
Afternoon
;
which
accordingly
came
to
pass
,
and
when
in
her
fits
she
named
one
J.
K.
a
Woman
living
in
the
Nighbouring
bounds
of
whom
she
said
,
that
she
had
seen
her
in
the
Church
.
As
also
,
that
she
was
Master
of
these
kind
of
fits
she
was
now
afflicted
with
;
withal
asserting
,
that
if
the
said
I.
K.
were
not
sent
for
,
she
would
grow
worse
and
worse
;
which
her
parents
finding
to
be
true
,
sent
in
the
Evening
for
the
said
.
I.
K
threatning
her
,
if
the
Damsel
was
any
further
troubled
with
her
,
that
she
should
be
apprehended
as
others
had
been
;
after
which
the
Damsel
being
in
the
mean
time
in
a
very
sore
fit
,
the
forementioned
I.
K.
prayed
(
tho
not
desired
)
that
GOD
might
send
the
Damsel
her
Health
;
whereupon
the
Damsel
was
no
more
troubled
with
these
kind
or
fits
;
but
did
instantly
recover
,
by
failing
into
a
swoon
as
she
us'd
to
do
before
recovery
out
of
any
of
her
fits
.
Tuesday
being
March
16
,
she
was
again
seiz'd
with
her
other
kind
of
fits
,
all
the
parts
of
her
body
being
Stiff
and
Rigid
;
and
sometimes
in
them
was
hear'd
conversing
with
the
Gentlewoman
(
as
she
call'd
her
)
vindicating
her self
of
what
the
Gentlewoman
alledged
against
her
,
Viz.
That
she
had
accused
some
innocent
persons
as
her
Tormenters
.
To
which
the
Damsel
distinctly
Reply'd
,
That
she
was
a
Lyer
,
saying
,
it
was
you
your self
,
and
none
other
ever
mentioned
any
such
thing
.
Thus
she
continued
untill
the
Friday
thereafter
,
being
never
free
of
the
light
fits
,
now
and
then
also
falling
into
swoons
,
and
appear'd
to
be
almost
choaked
by
the
means
of
some
Charms
and
Inchantments
,
invisibly
conveyed
into
her
Mouth
;
which
to
the
apprehension
of
Spectators
,
were
as
if
it
had
been
pieces
of
Chastnuts
,
Orange-pills
,
Whites
of
Eggs
,
or
such
like
,
all
which
were
distinctly
observed
,
when
occasionally
in
the
fit
she
opened
her
Mouth
;
and
when
Spectators
Essay'd
to
get
them
out
,
she
kep't
her
Mouth
&
Teeth
so
closs
,
that
no
strength
could
open
the
same
.
And
when
recovered
out
of
the
fit
,
she
told
L.
M.
a
Woman
living
in
the
Neighbouring
bounds
had
put
them
in
her
Mouth
.
Upon
Friday
being
March
19.
She
was
violently
Tormented
with
sore
fits
,
in
which
her
Neck
was
distorted
,
and
bended
back
like
a
Bow
towards
her
Heels
,
strugling
with
Feet
and
Hands
,
sometimes
Stiff
,
Blind
,
and
Deaf
,
putting
out
of
her
Mouth
a
great
number
of
small
Pins
;
which
she
said
the
forementioned
L.
M.
had
put
in
her
Mouth
.
And
about
six
a
Clock
that
same
Night
being
violently
Tormented
,
fell
a
crying
,
That
if
the
Gentlewoman
was
not
apprehended
that
Night
,
it
would
be
in
vain
to
apprehend
her
to
morrow
:
For
,
said
she
,
I
have
much
to
suffer
at
her
Hands
betwixt
Twelve
and
One
a
Clock
in
the
Morning
.
After
this
the
Damsel
lifting
up
her
Eye
lids
with
her
Hands
,
and
looking
upwards
,
said
,
what
art
thou
that
tells
me
that
the
Sheriff
and
my
Father
are
coming
here
this
Night
?
After
which
the
Sheriff
,
her
Father
and
James
Guthry
Meacer
to
the
Justiciary
Court
instantly
come
up
stairs
,
to
the
Amazment
of
those
who
remembered
what
the
Damsel
just
now
had
said
.
The
Damsel
continuing
all
this
while
Blind
and
Deaf
;
yet
was
heard
(
the
foresaid
persons
being
present
)
distinctly
to
discourse
with
some
in
visible
Beeing
near
to
her
,
saying
,
Is
the
Sheriff
come
,
is
he
near
me
?
and
streaching
out
her
hand
to
feel
if
any
were
about
her
,
the
Sheriff
put
his
hand
in
her's
;
notwithstanding
of
which
,
she
said
to
the
invisible
Beeing
discoursing
with
her
,
I
cannot
feel
the
Sheriff
,
how
can
he
be
present
here
?
or
how
can
I
have
him
by
the
hand
as
thou
say'st
,
seeing
I
feel
it
not
?
Thou
say'st
he
hath
brown
coloured
Cloths
,
red
plush
Breeches
with
black
strips
,
flowred
Musting
Cravat
,
and
an
imbroidered
Sword
Belt
:
Thou
says
there
is
an
Old
gray
Hair'd
Man
with
him
,
having
a
Ring
upon
his
Hand
;
but
I
can
neither
see
nor
feel
any
of
them
?
what
are
they
come
to
apprehend
the
GentleWoman
?
Is
this
their
Erand
indeed
?
And
the
Gitle
being
enquired
how
she
came
to
the
knowledge
of
these
strange
things
?
Reply'd
as
formerly
in
the
like
case
,
something
speaking
distinctly
as
above
her
Head
,
suggested
them
to
her
.
It
is
very
observeable
here
,
that
the
foresaid
persons
had
that
same
Afternoon
got
an
order
from
the
Commissioners
of
Justiciaty
to
apprehend
the
same
Gentlewoman
,
and
were
so
far
on
their
way
to
put
it
to
Execution
against
the
next
Morning
;
but
being
witnesses
to
the
Damsels
trouble
,
and
hearing
what
she
had
told
,
to
wit
:
That
a
delay
in
that
matter
would
prove
to
her
exceeding
dangerous
,
they
went
straight
on
in
their
Journey
that
same
Night
to
the
Gentlewomans
Habitation
,
and
put
their
warrand
to
Execution
.
As
the
Damsel
still
continued
to
be
violently
Tormented
,
sometimes
lying
with
her
Neck
and
other
parts
of
her
Body
upon
the
Ground
;
as
if
they
had
been
disjoynted
,
sometimes
also
Essaying
to
throw
her self
into
the
Fire
.
About
Ten
a
Clock
the
same
Night
she
continuing
in
the
Fit
,
her
Father
(
who
had
not
gone
with
the
Sheriff
)
beginning
to
read
a
part
of
the
Word
of
GOD
,
she
repeated
the
Words
after
him
tho
Blind
and
Deaf
in
the
mean
time
,
which
made
Spectators
apprehend
,
that
the
Damsel
had
the
sense
of
Hearing
in
these
sorts
of
fits
,
at
least
when
the
Word
of
GOD
was
read
:
To
find
out
the
truth
of
which
,
her
Father
did
cease
from
reading
,
which
tho
he
did
;
yet
the
Damsel
continued
to
repeat
the
following
Verses
of
the
Chapter
,
while
none
in
the
Room
were
reading
,
and
she
her self
had
no
Book
:
withal
being
heard
say
to
some
invisible
Beeing
about
her
,
Wilt
thou
teach
me
a
part
of
the
Old
Testament
as
well
as
the
New
.
The
Damsel
still
continuing
in
the
fore
mentioned
Fits
,
said
unto
the
Persons
present
,
that
now
it
was
Twelve
of
the
Clock
;
Oh
it
is
now
past
Twelve
,
sometimes
lying
as
one
dead
thorow
the
violence
of
pain
and
decay
of
her
natural
Spirits
,
sometimes
again
recovering
,
essay'd
to
express
somewhat
,
but
could
not
;
withal
putting
out
of
her
Mouth
a
great
quantity
of
crooked
Pins
,
and
the
parts
of
her
Body
being
prodigiously
distorted
,
she
complain'd
of
great
pain
:
Thus
she
continued
until
half
an
hour
after
Twelve
a
Clock
at
Night
;
when
on
a
sudden
she
recovered
,
to
the
admiration
of
Beholders
,
telling
them
,
She
might
now
go
to
Bed
,
being
told
by
some
invisible
Informer
,
that
the
Sheriff
and
the
other
Gentleman
,
to
wit
the
Macer
,
had
now
entred
the
Gentlewomans
House
;
and
accordingly
going
to
bed
,
was
no
further
troubled
that
Night
.
It
is
worthy
of
remark
here
,
that
the
Sheriff
and
Macer
at
their
return
did
declare
,
that
it
was
just
about
that
time
they
entred
the
Gentlewomans
House
,
which
the
Damsel
condescended
upon
.
Saturday
being
March
20
-
About
Ten
a
Clock
in
the
Forenoon
she
was
of
a
sudden
seiz'd
with
fits
falling
down
as
dead
,
her
eyes
quite
closed
,
sometimes
again
opening
and
turning
in
her
head
,
she
saw
nor
heard
none
about
her
,
but
was
hurried
with
violence
to
and
fro
thorow
the
Room
,
crying
with
a
loud
voice
when
any
by
force
would
hinder
her
motion
.
She
being
in
this
posture
and
depriv'd
thus
of
her
senses
,
James
Lindsay
one
of
the
three
Confessants
was
brought
into
the
Room
,
who
no
sooner
entered
the
door
but
was
perceived
by
her
,
and
she
smiling
ran
towards
him
,
saying
Jamie
where
hast
thou
been
this
long
time
;
how
is
it
with
thee
?
And
answered
him
distinctly
to
every
word
he
spake
,
tho
at
the
same
time
she
neither
heard
nor
saw
any
other
in
the
Room
,
nor
could
converse
with
them
albeit
tryed
by
several
experiments
for
that
purpose
,
particularly
a
Tobacco
Box
being
held
before
her
Eyes
by
a
person
present
in
the
Room
,
she
did
not
see
it
,
but
as
soon
as
it
was
put
in
the
hand
of
James
Lindsay
she
instantly
enquired
at
him
,
"
Where
he
had
got
that
Box
;
she
continuing
in
this
posture
,
the
Sheriff
,
her
Father
being
present
,
thought
it
fit
to
confront
M.
M.
who
was
now
come
,
thereby
to
try
if
the
Damsel
would
hear
or
see
her
as
she
had
done
James
Landssay
,
which
accordingly
they
did
.
And
as
soon
as
M.
M.
entered
the
door
the
Damsel
(
tho
still
in
the
fit
)
presently
smiled
and
said
,
I
see
the
Gentlewoman
now
,
tho
formerly
she
had
never
seen
her
personally
but
only
her
spectre
in
the
fits
.
She
likewise
heard
her
when
she
spoke
to
her
answering
distinctly
some
questions
proposed
by
M.
M
,
such
as
,
When
it
was
she
had
seen
her
tormenting
her
.
To
which
she
answered
,
she
had
seen
her
the
other
night
in
her
fits
,
and
further
challenged
her
,
Why
she
had
restrain'd
her
from
making
known
the
Highland
Wifes
name
,
as
also
saying
unto
her
,
Thou
pretends
thou
knowest
not
what
I
say
,
thou
knowest
well
enough
.
Upon
all
which
;
the
Gentlewoman
on
a
sudden
(
without
being
desired
)
prayed
,
That
the
Lord
might
send
the
Damsel
her
health
saying
,
"
Lord
help
thee
poor
daft
Child
and
rebuke
the
Devil
.
Which
words
were
no
sooner
uttered
then
the
Damsel
fell
down
as
dead
,
and
being
in
this
posture
carried
to
another
Room
instantly
recovered
of
the
Blind
,
Deaf
,
and
also
of
the
light
fit
becomeing
perfectly
well
&
continued
so
for
sometime
,
&
being
thus
recovered
and
M.
M.
removed
into
another
Room
,
the
Damsel
was
enquired
at
whom
she
had
seen
in
her
last
fit
.
To
which
she
reply'd
,
she
had
seen
the
Gentlewoman
,
tho
in
the
mean
time
she
was
altogether
ignorant
of
the
Gentlewomans
ever
being
personally
present
in
the
Room
with
her
.
The
same
day
the
Commissioners
of
Justiciary
having
come
to
Bargarran
.
M.
M.
and
the
Damsel
were
again
confronted
,
upon
which
the
Damsel
(
being
in
the
light
Fit
)
upon
the
first
look
of
the
forementioned
M.
M
,
was
suddenly
seiz'd
with
sore
Fits
,
out
of
which
when
recovered
,
she
accused
her
as
being
one
of
her
most
violent
tormenters
,
particularly
mentioning
such
and
such
times
in
which
she
had
in
an
extraordinary
manner
afflicted
her
,
as
also
what
words
she
spoke
in
her
hearing
while
in
the
Fit
,
and
which
is
yet
more
remarkable
,
did
question
the
Gentlewoman
if
she
did
not
sometime
in
December
last
when
she
was
tormenting
her
,
remember
how
she
went
away
from
her
in
great
haste
,
saying
,
she
could
stay
no
longer
being
obliged
to
attend
a
Childs
burial
at
home
.
In
confirmation
of
which
it
is
very
credibly
informed
that
W●
R
,
a
near
neighbour
of
hers
had
a
Child
burried
that
same
day
,
and
that
the
Gentlewoman
came
not
in
due
time
to
attend
the
Corpse
to
the
burial
place
,
but
the
Corpse
being
near
to
the
Church
yeard
ere
she
reached
the
House
from
whence
they
came
,
she
returned
again
to
her
own
lodging
,
and
so
did
not
accompany
the
burial
at
all
.
The
Lords
day
following
being
March
21
,
she
fell
into
Swooning
Fits
complaining
of
no
pain
,
except
near
to
her
heart
,
falling
down
as
dead
not
only
when
the
Fits
seiz'd
her
,
but
also
when
she
recovered
,
sometimes
Singing
after
an
unusual
manner
,
withall
informing
Spectators
that
J.
G.
constrained
her
to
that
kind
of
Musick
,
her
own
Lips
not
at
all
moving
in
the
mean
time
,
which
beholders
saw
to
be
true
,
only
her
Tongue
,
for
preventing
of
which
she
frequently
put
her
hand
into
her
Mouth
.
And
at
this
time
when
either
the
herself
,
or
those
about
her
,
offered
to
read
any
part
of
Scripture
,
she
was
violently
.
Tormented
,
declaring
if
she
did
but
so
much
as
hear
the
word
of
God
read
that
day
,
she
would
certainly
be
extremely
Tortured
,
in
Confirmation
of
which
when
some
essay'd
to
read
Hebr.
11.2
,
4.6
.
Isa.
40.
Psal.
3.
She
uttered
horrid
Schreeks
and
Out-cryes
,
Complaining
that
She
was
Pinched
,
in
evidence
of
which
,
the
Prints
or
Marks
of
the
Nails
of
Fingers
were
distinctly
seen
on
her
Arms
,
and
being
thus
pinched
or
bitter
four
several
times
with
great
violence
and
pain
,
the
Skin
it self
was
seen
to
be
torn
from
off
these
parts
of
her
Arms
and
Fingers
where
the
Prints
of
the
●eeth
and
Nails
were
observed
;
so
that
from
the
deepness
of
the
Wounds
the
foresaids
parts
affected
fell
a
Bleeding
,
which
Blood
was
bot●●
seen
and
handled
by
Spectators
.
Moreover
the
Damsel
while
in
this
sad
and
●●mentable
condition
seem'd
to
be
extremely
affected
and
oppressed
with
sore
Sickness
,
as
one
in
a
Fever
,
●●ying
sometimes
to
Remove
these
Dead
Children
●●t
of
her
Sight
;
which
she
frequently
repeated
from
six
to
nine
in
the
Morning
,
and
she
fall
continuing
thorow
the
reft
of
the
day
,
it
was
observed
that
some
Charms
and
I●chantments
were
put
in
her
Mouth
as
formerly
,
of
which
the
Damsel
being
very
sensible
,
fell
down
on
〈◊〉
Sudden
on
the
Ground
putting
her
hand
to
some
Spittle
which
she
had
put
out
of
her
Mouth
,
and
lifted
some
Trash
which
she
again
cast
down
to
the
Ground
,
it
making
some
Norse
,
but
yet
neither
seen
in
her
Spittle
,
nor
else
where
by
Spectators
,
tho
while
in
her
Mouth
they
distinctly
observed
something
like
Orange
Pils
,
Whites
of
Eggs
,
and
peeces
of
Chasn●ts
.
Munday
,
Being
March
,
22
,
the
fore
mentioned
L.
M.
or
J.
G.
came
to
Bargarrans
house
,
and
being
confronted
with
the
Damsel
,
questioned
her
if
ever
she
had
seen
her
in
any
of
her
Fits
,
withal
alledging
that
she
viz.
L.
M.
or
J.
G
could
be
none
of
her
Tormentors
,
because
the
Damsel
was
not
now
seiz'd
with
a
Fit
,
tho
looking
upon
her
as
she
us'd
to
be
,
when
she
look'd
upon
any
of
her
other
Tormentors
when
Confronted
with
them
;
upon
which
the
Damsel
being
for
sometime
silent
.
L.
M.
or
J.
G.
did
again
propose
the
same
question
to
her
,
to
which
the
Damsel
distinctly
reply'd
Yes
,
upon
which
L.
M.
reply'd
,
perhaps
,
you
have
seen
the
Devil
in
my
Shape
.
As
to
this
Conference
there
are
several
things
exceeding
remarkable
,
as
first
,
that
the
Damsel
upon
her
Answering
,
Yes
,
was
immediatly
seiz'd
with
a
Fit
.
2dly
.
That
however
after
Katharine
Campbel
had
touch'd
the
Damsel
in
presence
of
the
Commissioners
,
upon
the
5th
,
of
February
last
,
she
had
ever
since
that
time
freedom
to
touch
any
of
her
Tormentors
without
being
seiz'd
with
her
Fits
,
as
has
been
hinted
,
yet
true
it
is
,
that
in
the
room
of
that
Charm
a
new
one
took
place
,
viz.
When
any
time
she
looked
upon
her
Tormentors
in
the
Face
,
at
the
very
first
look
she
was
seiz'd
with
her
Fits
;
which
Charm
she
declar'd
was
laid
by
the
means
of
the
forementioned
L.
M.
or
J.
G.
And
also
taken
off
again
by
her
that
very
Morning
before
she
came
to
visit
the
Damsel
,
and
this
she
said
was
suggested
to
her
by
some
invisible
beeing
,
speaking
distinctly
as
it
were
above
her
head
;
and
that
therefore
the
Damsel
now
had
freedom
to
look
L.
M.
in
the
Face
without
being
seiz'd
with
Fits
,
which
for
a
considerable
time
before
she
could
not
do
when
confronted
with
any
of
her
Tormentors
3ly
,
It
is
yet
more
observable
,
that
in
the
same
Morning
before
ever
L.
M.
came
to
visit
the
Damsel
,
it
was
told
by
the
Damsel
to
several
Persons
in
the
Family
,
that
L.
M.
had
taken
off
that
Charm
,
of
her
being
seiz'd
with
Fits
when
looking
any
of
her
Tormentors
in
the
Face
,
but
withal
that
she
had
laid
on
another
in
its
room
,
to
wit
,
that
as
soon
as
the
Damsel
should
by
words
confer
with
any
of
her
Tormentors
,
so
soon
should
she
be
seiz'd
with
a
Fit
,
which
accordingly
was
verified
when
she
spoke
to
L.
M.
or
J.
G.
Tuesday
being
March
.
23d
,
The
Damsel
being
asleep
in
the
Bed
with
her
Mother
about
three
aclock
in
the
Morning
was
on
a
sudden
awakned
(
having
for
sometime
Struggled
in
her
Sleep
)
in
great
fear
and
consternation
,
and
being
seiz'd
with
her
Blind
and
Deaf
Fits
,
took
fast
hold
of
her
Mother
,
declaring
to
her
Father
and
her
,
that
the
Devil
was
standing
near
to
the
Bed
assaulting
her
,
upon
which
she
cry'd
suddenly
:
God
Almighty
keep
me
from
thy
meetings
.
I
'l
die
rather
then
go
to
them
,
I
'l
never
thorow
the
Grace
of
God
Renounce
my
Baptism
;
for
I
'l
certainly
go
to
Hell
if
I
do
it
:
Thou
sayest
I
'l
go
to
Hell
however
,
because
I
am
a
great
Sinner
;
but
I
believe
what
the
word
of
God
sayeth
,
tho
I
have
many
Sins
;
yet
the
Blood
of
Christ
cleanseth
from
all
Sin
,
and
I
will
not
add
that
great
wickedness
to
my
other
S●ns
,
which
thou
art
tempting
me
to
do
.
It
's
no
wonder
thou
lie
to
me
,
seeing
thou
wast
bold
to
lie
in
Gods
Face
.
I
know
thou
art
a
Liar
from
the
beginning
;
and
the
red
Co●t
thou
promisest
me
,
I
know
thou
canst
not
perform
it
.
And
altho
I
should
never
Recover
,
I
'm
never
resolv'd
to
renounce
my
Baptism
,
It
is
God
who
hath
keeped
me
all
this
time
from
being
a
Witch
,
and
I
trust
,
he
will
yet
by
his
Grace
keep
me
,
not
because
of
any
thing
in
me
,
but
of
his
●●n
great
Mercy
,
and
that
he
who
hath
keeped
me
hitherto
from
being
devoured
by
thee
,
I
hope
wi●l
yet
keep
me
.
This
Conference
continued
near
the
space
of
an
hour
,
her
Father
Mother
and
others
being
ear
Witnesses
to
the
same
.
And
after
recovery
the
Damsel
declared
that
it
was
the
Devil
,
who
(
in
the
shape
of
a
naked
Man
with
a
Shirt
,
having
much
hair
upon
his
hands
and
his
Face
like
Swine
Bristles
)
has
appeard
to
her
tempting
her
as
aforesaid
.
Untill
Sabbath
following
she
continued
in
the
light
Fit
,
but
withal
every
Morning
and
Evening
was
still
seiz'd
with
her
sore
Fits
,
continuing
still
to
name
M
,
M
,
(
who
was
at
this
time
set
at
liberty
)
the
forementioned
L.
M
,
E.
T.
an
Highland
wife
,
and
others
as
being
her
tormentors
.
It
is
more
then
remarkable
here
that
M
,
M.
being
set
at
Liberty
upon
Bail
,
the
very
day
after
she
went
home
,
she
again
appear'd
to
the
Damsel
tormenting
her
in
her
fits
,
and
continued
so
to
do
several
days
thereafter
,
particularly
upon
the
Saturday
being
March
27
after
she
was
set
at
liberty
:
The
which
day
the
Damsel
was
heard
name
her
in
the
fits
and
say
to
her
,
wilt
thou
say
God
help
me
poor
mad
or
foolish
child
as
thou
saidst
the
other
day
before
the
Judges
:
art
thou
wishing
the
Devil
to
take
me
?
where
is
the
Habite
thou
was
cloathed
with
the
other
day
.
On
Sabbath
Morning
,
being
March
28.
the
Damsel
thorow
GOD's
great
Mercy
towards
her
,
was
perfectly
recovered
,
both
of
all
her
Sort
and
light
Fits
;
becoming
as
Well
,
Sensible
,
and
Composed
as
ever
.
If
it
shall
be
questioned
,
how
the
Truth
of
all
these
strange
Things
is
attested
?
There
is
none
of
those
Particulars
mentioned
in
the
Narrative
,
but
had
in
the
first
Draught
the
Witnesses
insert
at
the
end
of
every
particular
Paragraph
,
and
attested
before
the
Commissioners
for
Enquiry
at
R●nfrew
,
by
the
Subscriptions
of
the
respective
Witnesses
.
But
seeing
the
placing
of
them
so
now
,
would
have
occasioned
the
repetition
of
several
persons
Names
over
and
over
again
,
&
would
have
made
this
Narrative
swell
too
much
in
bulk
;
Therefore
we
judg'd
it
fittest
now
to
set
down
the
Names
altogether
ar
the
end
of
the
Narrative
;
&
the
rather
that
seing
these
things
fell
not
out
in
a
private
Corner
;
but
Thousands
in
this
Countrey
have
been
Eye
&
Ear
Witnesses
thereof
to
their
admiration
and
raising
of
their
Sympathy
,
and
been
fully
convinced
beyond
all
debate
of
a
Diabolical
influence
upon
the
Affliction
of
the
Damsel
:
We
shall
only
now
make
mention
of
a
few
,
Viz
,
beside
the
Father
,
Mother
,
Grand-mother
,
and
nearest
Relations
of
the
Damsel
,
and
servants
of
the
Family
,
who
were
always
present
with
her
in
her
Fits
:
such
of
the
Commissioners
for
Inquiry
,
and
of
Justiciary
as
had
occasion
to
be
on
the
place
of
the
Events
,
particularly
the
●ord
Blantyre
,
Mr.
Francis
Montgomery
of
Giffen
,
Sir
John
Ma●Well
or
Pollock
,
Sir
John
Houston
of
That
ilk
,
Alexander
Porterfield
of
that
ilk
,
the
Laird
of
Black
hall
younger
,
the
Laird
of
Glanderstone
,
the
Laird
of
Craigens
,
Porterfield
of
Fulwood
,
John
Alexander
of
Black
house
,
Mr.
Semple
Sheriff
of
Renfrew
:
And
several
other
Honourable
p●rsons
of
good
Sense
and
pr●ing
Witts
;
such
as
the
Noble
Earl
of
Marshal
,
the
Laird
of
Orbiston
,
the
Laird
of
Kilmarnock
,
the
Laird
of
Meldrum
,
the
Laird
of
Bishopton
Elder
and
Younger
,
Gavin
Cochran
of
Craigmure
,
William
Denneston
of
Colgrain
,
Dr.
Mathew
Brisbon
,
&c.
And
many
Ministers
,
who
kept
days
of
Humiliation
and
Prayer
weekly
in
the
Family
,
and
sometimes
in
the
Parish
Church
with
the
Congregation
,
Viz.
Mr.
James
Hutchison
Minister
of
the
Gospel
at
K●●ellan
,
Mr.
Patrick
Simson
at
Renfrew
,
Mr
James
●tirling
at
Kilbarchan
Mr.
Thomas
Blackwal
at
Paisly
,
Mr.
James
Brisban
at
Kilmacolm●
,
Mr.
Rebort
Tayler
at
Houston
;
and
of
Neighbouring
Presbytries
,
Mr
Neill
Gillies
;
Mr.
James
Brown
,
Mr.
John
Gray
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
at
Glasgow
;
while
the
Damsel
was
there
;
Mr.
John
Ritchie
Minister
at
Old
Kilpatrick
,
Mr.
Alexander
King
at
Bonnil
,
Mr.
Archibald
Wa●lace
at
Cardress
,
Mr.
John
Anderson
at
Dryramen
,
Mr.
Andrew
Turner
Minister
of
the
Place
,
who
was
frequently
there
:
besides
;
Mr.
Menzies
of
Camme
,
and
Mr.
Grant
of
Cullen
,
Advocates
:
who
were
Eye
and
Ear
Witnesses
to
several
important
passages
of
the
Damsels
Affliction
,
and
the
convincing
evidences
of
it's
flowing
from
the
Operation
of
the
Devil
,
and
his
Instruments
.
The
Truth
whereof
is
further
Adminiculat
by
the
Progress
and
Issue
of
the
Tryal
,
at
which
were
present
at
several
Occasions
,
not
only
Sir
John
Hamiltoun
of
Halcraig
one
of
the
Senators
of
the
Colledge
of
justice
,
Sir
John
Shaw
of
Greenock
,
Commissar
Smollet
of
Bonnill
,
Mr
,
James
Stewart
Advocat
,
who
were
concerned
in
the
Commission
with
these
others
before
mentioned
:
But
also
a
great
confluence
of
several
Nobility
and
Gentry
out
of
the
Countrey
,
such
as
the
Earl
of
Glencairn
,
the
Lord
Killmares
,
the
Lord
Semple
,
&c.
And
now
we
are
sure
,
that
after
all
the
pregnant
evidences
of
the
truth
of
this
Relation
as
to
matter
of
Fact
,
they
must
be
persons
very
hard
of
belief
that
can
allow
themselves
to
deny
credite
thereunto
:
And
must
needs
conclude
,
that
there
is
nothing
credible
in
the
World
that
ever
hath
been
delivered
to
Mankind
or
posterity
;
and
that
they
resolve
to
believe
nothing
though
never
so
fully
attested
which
they
do
not
see
with
their
own
Eyes
,
and
perhaps
there
are
some
hardned
in
their
prejudicat
conceits
that
will
not
believe
even
these
so
far
as
they
may
have
influence
to
convince
them
of
their
Errors
;
but
wisdom
is
and
will
be
justified
of
all
her
Children
.
And
among
all
Ingenuous
and
sober
Persons
,
We
are
hopefull
this
Narrative
(
which
plainly
relates
things
as
they
fell
out
without
any
kind
of
disguise
)
will
obtain
such
entertainment
as
it
is
truely
design'd
for
,
Viz.
That
we
be
hereby
more
and
more
confirmed
in
the
Faith
of
the
beeing
of
God
and
invisible
Spirits
,
and
admire
&
adore
the
wonderful
works
of
God
in
the
Depths
of
his
Judgment
,
&
that
there
is
really
a
Hellish
Hierarchy
&
Combination
of
Infernal
Spirits
enemies
to
God
;
&
working
all
the
mischief
they
can
to
Men
;
whereby
also
,
there
is
an
evident
Testimony
giv'n
to
the
Truth
of
what
is
related
in
the
Scriptures
concerning
the
same
,
&
withall
to
lament
,
that
thorow
the
just
displeasure
of
our
Holy
&
Righteous
GOD
,
those
Devils
get
leave
to
break
forth
with
so
much
Rage
and
Fury
,
and
gets
so
many
among
profest
Christians
into
a
hellish
confederacy
with
themselves
to
be
the
instruments
of
their
Malice
,
and
the
actors
of
so
many
Tragedies
in
the
Christian
World
:
To
stir
us
up
also
to
bless
and
magnifie
our
GOD
that
those
Devils
and
their
Instruments
are
chain'd
and
limited
that
they
cannot
work
all
the
evil
they
would
,
and
as
long
as
they
will
:
and
therefore
to
join
in
Thanksgiving
to
GOD
for
His
deliverance
of
that
afflicted
Family
and
Damsel
.
Finally
as
we
are
to
submit
to
such
Afflictions
as
the
LORD
may
think
fit
to
measure
out
unto
us
,
by
whatsoever
instruments
as
in
the
case
of
Job
;
so
we
are
called
to
Watch
and
Pray
that
we
enter
not
into
Temptation
while
we
have
such
Adversarys
going
about
still
seeking
to
devour
us
,
&
to
rejoyce
that
we
have
a
strong
protector
the
blessed
Captain
of
our
Salvation
,
the
LORD
JESUS
CHRIST
who
hath
obtained
the
Victory
over
all
the
Devils
in
Hell
,
and
hath
promised
all
his
Saints
a
share
in
His
Victory
,
which
they
begin
to
have
even
in
time
,
1
Epistle
Job
.
4.4
,
And
he
hath
given
us
hope
through
Grace
of
a
speedy
and
certain
accomplishment
thereof
.
Rom.
16.20
.
And
therefore
when
we
see
all
these
things
come
to
pass
.
Luk
,
21.28
,
"
Let
us
lift
up
our
heads
because
our
Redemption
draweth
nigh
.
FINIS
.
An
Abreviat
of
the
Precognition
and
Report
made
by
the
Commissioners
appointed
by
His
Majesty's
Privy
Council
for
Enquiry
:
And
of
the
Confessions
of
Elizabeth
Anderson
,
James
and
Thomas
Lindsays
,
transmitted
by
these
Commissioners
to
the
Council
before
granting
of
the
Commission
for
the
Trial.
To
which
is
subjoined
,
the
summ
of
the
Confessions
of
Margaret
and
Jannet
Rodgers
,
who
did
confess
during
the
Trial
of
the
rest
,
beyond
Expectation
.
Together
also
with
an
account
of
the
Confession
and
Death
of
John
Reid
,
who
made
a
Discovery
conform
to
the
former
Witnesses
,
after
the
Trial
was
over
.
And
finally
,
there
are
added
some
passages
which
fell
out
at
the
Execution
of
the
Seven
Witches
who
were
Condemned
.
THE
Commissioners
for
Enquiry
having
met
at
Bargarran
in
February
1697
,
did
choose
the
Lord
Blantyre
Praeses
,
and
took
the
Confession
of
Elizabeth
Anderson
,
aged
about
17
Years
,
as
follows
.
That
about
seven
Years
ago
she
stayed
with
Jean
Fultoun
her
Grand-mother
,
and
playing
about
the
Door
,
she
saw
a
black
grim
Man
go
in
to
her
Grand-mothers
House
:
After
which
,
her
Grand-mother
came
to
the
Door
,
called
her
in
,
and
desired
her
to
take
the
Gentleman
(
as
she
nam'd
him
)
by
the
hand
;
and
which
she
did
,
but
finding
it
very
cold
,
became
affraid
;
and
immediatly
he
evanished
.
About
a
Month
thereafter
,
her
Grand-mother
and
she
being
in
the
House
together
,
the
said
Gentleman
(
whom
she
then
suspected
to
be
the
Devil
)
appeared
to
them
,
and
fell
a
talking
with
her
Grand-mother
,
by
rounding
in
one
anothers
Ears
:
Upon
which
the
Grand-mother
desired
her
to
take
him
by
the
hand
,
being
a
friend
of
hers
;
but
Elizabeth
refusing
,
the
Grand-mother
threatened
,
that
she
would
get
none
of
the
Cloaths
promised
to
her
,
unless
she
should
obey
:
Yet
Elizabeth
withstood
,
saying
,
The
Lord
be
between
me
&
him
;
whereupon
he
went
away
in
a
flight
,
but
she
knew
not
how
.
Elizabath
was
not
trouble
for
a
long
time
thereafter
,
till
her
Father
desiring
her
to
go
with
him
a
Begging
through
the
Countrey
;
and
she
saying
,
that
she
needed
not
seek
her
Meat
,
seeing
she
might
have
Work
;
her
Father
pressed
her
to
go
alongst
,
and
took
her
to
a
Moor
in
Kilmacome
,
where
were
gathered
together
,
at
that
and
other
subsequent
Meetings
,
Katharine
Campbel
,
Margaret
Fulton
(
her
Grand
Aunt
)
Margaret
Lang
,
John
Reid
Smith
,
Margaret
and
Janet
Rodgers
,
the
three
Lindsays
(
beside
the
two
Confessant
ones
)
&c.
and
severals
whom
she
did
not
know
,
and
the
foresaid
Gentleman
with
them
.
He
came
to
Elizabeth
,
bidding
her
renounce
her
Baptism
,
promising
that
if
she
would
consent
thereunto
,
she
should
get
better
Meat
and
Cloths
,
and
not
need
to
beg
.
But
(
as
she
declared
)
she
would
not
consent
.
Then
he
enquired
what
brought
her
thither
,
she
answered
,
that
she
came
with
her
Father
:
Whereupon
the
Devil
and
her
Father
went
and
talked
together
apart
,
but
she
knew
not
where
about
.
Declares
,
that
in
that
Meeting
was
conferred
the
Tormenting
of
Mr.
William
Fleeming
Minister
at
Inner●ipp
his
Child
.
Elizabeth
Confesses
she
was
at
an
other
Meeting
with
that
Crew
above
the
Town
of
Kilpatrick
,
with
the
foresaid
Gentleman
whom
they
called
their
Lord
:
And
that
she
went
with
her
Father
to
the
Ferrie-boat
of
Erskin
;
where
the
Devil
with
the
rest
of
the
Band
overturned
the
Boat
and
drowned
the
Laird
of
Brighouse
and
the
Ferrier
of
Erskine
,
with
several
special
Circumstances
thereanent
;
particularly
that
some
of
the
Crew
would
have
saved
the
Ferrier
,
but
one
of
them
,
Viz.
His
Mother
in
Law
gainstood
it
,
in
regard
he
had
expelled
her
out
of
his
House
alittle
while
before
the
Meeting
.
Acknowledges
she
was
present
with
them
at
the
destroying
of
William
Montgomeries
Child
,
by
strangling
it
with
a
Sea
Napkin
:
where
they
having
entred
the
House
lighted
a
Candle
which
was
some
what
Blewish
,
and
Agnes
Naismith
saying
,
what
if
the
People
a
wake
,
Margaret
Fulton
replyed
,
ye
need
not
fear
:
As
also
declares
,
that
about
five
Weeks
before
the
date
,
her
Father
brought
her
on
foot
to
Bargarrans
Orchard
,
into
which
they
entred
by
a
slop
in
the
Dyke
,
and
where
were
present
the
persons
before
named
,
&c.
and
the
Devil
,
who
told
that
no
Body
would
see
them
,
at
which
they
laugh'd
.
At
this
Meeting
they
,
with
their
Lord
,
contrived
the
Destruction
of
Christian
Shaw
:
Some
being
for
Stobbing
her
with
a
Touck
,
others
for
Hanging
her
with
a
Cord
,
a
third
sort
for
Choaking
her
,
and
some
intended
to
have
her
out
of
the
House
to
Destroy
her
;
but
fearing
they
might
be
taken
before
the
next
meeting
to
that
effect
,
their
lord
(
as
they
call'd
him
)
gave
them
a
piece
of
an
unchristned
Child's
Liver
to
eat
,
(
but
the
Declarant
and
the
other
two
Confessants
slipped
the
eating
of
it
)
telling
them
,
that
though
they
were
apprehended
they
should
never
Confess
,
which
would
prevent
an
effectual
Discovery
:
And
further
,
severals
of
them
being
affraid
that
the
Declarant
would
Confess
,
and
tell
of
them
as
she
had
done
formerly
on
her
Grand-mother
,
they
threatened
to
tear
her
all
in
peices
if
she
did
so
;
and
particularly
Margaret
Laing
threatned
her
most
.
After
two
Hours
,
or
thereby
,
they
disappeared
in
a
flight
,
except
the
Declarant
,
who
went
home
on
her
Foot
.
Confesses
likewise
,
That
one
Night
her
Father
raised
her
out
of
her
Bed
,
and
they
having
in
a
flight
;
from
whence
they
went
on
foot
to
Dunbritton
,
and
in
Mr.
John
Hardy
Minister
his
Yeard
,
the
crew
and
their
Lord
being
met
,
they
formed
the
Picture
of
Mr.
Hardy
,
and
dabed
it
full
of
pins
,
and
having
put
it
amongst
Water
and
Ale
mixed
,
roasted
it
on
a
Spit
at
a
Fire
.
&c
,
After
which
her
father
and
her self
returned
in
the
same
manner
as
they
went
.
Declares
the
particular
persons
that
were
imployed
,
and
most
industrious
in
the
several
Facts
before-mentioned
,
&c
,
James
Lindsay
(
aged
14
Years
)
declares
,
That
one
day
he
met
with
the
decast
Jean-Fulton
his
Grand-mother
at
her
own
House
,
where
she
took
from
him
a
little
round
Cape
and
a
plack
;
but
being
grieved
,
he
required
them
from
her
again
,
and
she
refusing
he
called
her
an
old
Witch
and
ran
away
,
upon
which
she
followed
him
and
cryed
that
she
should
meet
him
with
an
ill
turn
.
About
3
days
thereafter
he
being
a
begging
in
the
Countrey
he
met
his
Grand-mother
with
a
black
Grim
Man
,
&c.
Whom
she
desired
him
to
take
by
the
hand
,
which
James
did
,
but
found
it
exceeding
cold
and
was
straitly
griped
,
whereupon
the
saids
Gentleman
(
as
she
termed
him
)
asked
the
declarant
if
he
would
serve
him
,
and
he
sho●●d
have
a
Coat
,
Hat
,
and
several
other
things
,
to
which
James
answerd
yes
,
I
'le
do
it
,
and
after
this
the
foresaid
Gentleman
(
whom
the
declarant
knew
thereafter
to
be
the
Devil
)
and
his
Grand-mother
went
away
but
knowes
not
how
.
Acknowledges
he
was
frequently
thereafter
at
meetings
with
the
Devil
and
Witches
,
particularly
these
mentioned
in
Elizabeth
Andersons
confession
:
that
their
Lord
came
to
James
at
the
first
publick
meeting
,
took
him
by
the
hand
,
and
forbade
him
to
tells
that
they
contrived
before
hand
at
the
said
meeting
the
dtowning
of
Brighouse
,
and
concurrs
with
Elizabeth
Anderson
anent
the
design
of
saving
the
Ferrier
which
his
Mother
in
Law
did
divert
.
He
being
Interrogat
,
declared
he
did
not
see
J.
K.
and
J.
W.
at
committing
of
the
foresaid
Fact
;
(
And
indeed
they
were
then
in
prison
)
that
they
with
a
Cord
strangled
Mathew
Park's
Child
;
and
that
the
Person
who
waited
on
the
Child
finding
it
stifled
,
cryed
out
Mathew
Mathew
,
the
Bairn
is
Dead
:
Elizabeth
Anderson
concurrs
in
this
particular
;
and
tells
that
when
they
had
done
,
they
took
the
Cord
with
them
.
Declares
,
that
he
was
present
at
strangling
William
Montgomeries
Child
with
a
Sea
Napkin
,
and
heard
Agnes
Naismith
say
draw
the
L●●p
&c.
That
about
five
Weeks
since
he
was
carryed
to
them
in
Bargarrans
Orchard
,
and
concurrs
with
Elizabeth
Anderson
in
what
was
treated
there
,
anent
distroying
Christian
Shaw
,
and
the
Charm
against
Confessing
.
Likeways
the
Meeting
in
Dunbritton
anent
Mr.
Hardy
,
is
acknowledged
by
him
:
And
that
he
has
several
times
appeared
to
Christian
Shaw
both
in
Glasgow
and
Bargarran
,
with
the
others
that
did
Tormen●
her
and
put
in
her
Mouth
Coal-cindets
,
Bones
,
Hay
,
Hair
,
Sticks
,
&c.
Intending
thereby
to
Choak
her
:
That
he
and
they
did
oft
times
Prick
and
Stob
her
in
this
manner
,
Viz.
He
had
a
Needle
which
if
he
put
in
his
Cloaths
,
her
Body
would
be
pricked
and
stobed
in
that
place
where
he
fixt
the
Needle
,
and
if
he
put
it
in
his
Hair
,
that
part
of
her
Head
would
be
Tormented
:
That
he
saw
her
put
out
the
Pins
they
had
put
in
,
at
which
time
he
cryed
these
words
,
He●p
J.
D.
who
was
also
then
present
:
That
when
the
Ministers
began
to
pray
in
Bargarrrans
House
at
several
occasions
,
the
Devil
and
they
immediatly
went
away
&c.
Thomas
Lindsay
being
below
pupillarity
,
declares
the
same
Jean
Fulton
his
Grand-mother
awaked
him
one
Night
out
of
his
Bed
,
and
caused
him
take
a
Black
Grimm
Gentleman
(
as
she
called
him
)
by
the
Hand
;
which
he
felt
to
to
be
cold
:
And
who
having
enquired
if
Thomas
would
serve
him
and
be
his
Man
,
and
he
would
give
him
a
Red
Coat
,
the
declarant
consented
:
And
the
Gentleman
(
whom
he
knew
thereafter
to
be
the
Devil
)
gave
him
a
Nip
in
the
Neck
which
continued
sore
for
Ten
days
.
Thereafter
one
day
after
his
Grand-mothers
decease
,
coming
by
her
House
,
he
thought
she
appeared
to
him
clapping
his
Head
,
and
desiring
him
to
be
a
good
Servant
to
the
Gentleman
to
whom
she
had
gifted
him
,
and
forbidding
him
to
reveal
it
.
Declares
,
that
one
Night
lying
in
Bed
in
the
house
of
one
Robert
Shaw
,
he
was
awakened
out
of
his
sleep
and
carried
in
a
flight
to
Mathew
Parks
House
,
where
were
present
the
particular
persons
named
by
him
,
and
concurrs
as
to
the
manner
present
the
particular
persons
named
by
him
,
and
concurrs
as
to
the
manner
of
strangling
of
the
Child
with
James
Lindsay
his
Brother
:
And
that
another
Night
being
in
the
House
of
Walter
Alexander
;
he
was
brought
to
the
strangling
of
William
Montgomeries
Child
,
and
agrees
likeways
in
the
manner
of
it
with
his
Brother
;
only
he
sayes
the
Sea-Naphin
with
which
they
committed
the
Fact
was
specled
.
He
likewise
concurrs
as
to
the
Meeting
in
Bargarrans
Orchard
about
five
weeks
agoe
,
and
what
was
acted
therein
:
As
also
anent
Mr.
Hardy
;
with
this
Addition
,
That
himself
turned
the
Spitt
whereon
the
Picture
was
roasted
,
&c.
It
is
to
be
noticed
,
that
as
the
three
Confessants
were
separatly
apprehended
upon
several
occasions
,
so
they
(
after
the
obstinacy
to
discover
was
abated
)
did
in
it
these
confessions
in
several
distinct
places
without
Communication
with
,
or
knowledge
of
,
one
anothers
confessions
in
manner
mentioned
in
the
preceeding
Narrative
.
The
Commissioners
did
examine
them
upon
other
trying
questions
that
were
new
,
thereby
to
make
experiment
of
their
co●sonancy
or
disagreement
:
But
still
found
them
strangely
to
accord
.
The
Facts
did
fall
out
in
the
manner
declared
by
them
,
particularly
the
strangling
of
the
Children
,
death
of
the
Minister
,
drowning
of
those
in
the
boat
,
and
torture
of
Bargarrans
daughter
mentioned
in
the
Confessions
before
exprest
.
Further
,
the
Commissioners
did
confront
them
both
with
Christian
Shaw
the
afflicted
Girle
,
and
the
Confessants
did
accuse
these
to
their
Faces
,
and
bind
them
in
circumstances
with
great
steddiness
and
congruity
tho
separatly
brought
in
.
The
Commissioners
did
also
try
some
experiments
annent
the
Girle
her
falling
in
Fits
on
approach
of
the
accused
,
as
is
exprest
in
the
Narrative
;
and
examined
her
,
with
these
who
stayed
commonly
about
her
upon
the
particulars
of
her
Sufferings
:
they
tryed
to
cause
her
write
(
since
she
could
not
say
out
)
the
name
of
a
person
whom
she
first
called
Margaret
or
pinc●
Maggi●
and
asserted
to
be
one
of
her
chief
bourriers
;
yet
upon
writing
Margaret
and
the
letter
L
,
of
her
Sirname
the
Girl
was
persently
taken
with
a
fearful
convulsion
,
the
pen
being
struck
out
of
her
hand
and
her self
falling
as
dead
,
with
groans
heavier
and
sorer
then
ordinary
:
After
some
recovery
whereof
some
Ministers
pointed
to
her
a
passage
of
the
bible
,
but
upon
essaying
to
cast
her
eyes
on
it
,
she
fell
into
vehement
pangs
;
till
one
of
the
Commissioners
desiring
the
Book
might
be
closed
,
and
that
being
done
she
immediatly
came
to
her self
,
&c.
Lastly
,
the
Commissioners
called
before
them
those
presons
who
had
signed
the
passages
of
the
several
dayes
in
the
written
Journal
of
this
Girles
sufferings
:
and
having
examined
them
thereupon
,
transmitted
the
same
with
the
Declarations
of
the
three
Confessants
,
and
several
of
the
passages
that
occurred
in
the
precognition
,
to
his
Majestys
Privy
Council
by
whom
they
were
appointed
for
that
effect
Besides
this
,
the
fubfcrived
attestations
of
Doctor
Mathew
Brishant
Phisician
,
&
Mr
,
Henry
Marshall
Apothecary
in
Glasgow
,
did
influence
the
belief
of
an
extraordinary
cause
of
these
events
,
The
Doctor
on
the
31.
December
1696
tells
,
that
at
first
sight
when
he
was
brought
,
the
Girle
appeared
so
brisk
in
Motion
,
so
florid
in
collour
,
so
chearfull
,
and
in
a
word
every
way
healthfull
,
that
he
could
hardly
be
perswaded
she
had
need
of
a
Physician
:
But
whithin
Je●
Minuts
he
found
himself
obliged
to
alter
his
thoughts
,
for
she
rose
from
her
Seat
,
and
advertised
she
was
instantly
to
be
seiz'd
with
a
fit
,
according
whereunto
he
observed
a
considerable
distention
in
her
left
Hypochondre
,
which
in
a
Trace
falling
,
she
was
forth
with
taken
with
horrid
convulsive
Motions
and
heavy
Groans
at
first
;
which
afterwards
as
soon
as
she
was
able
to
frame
words
,
turned
into
Expostulatery
Mourning
against
some
Women
;
particularly
.
Campbel
and
Nasmith
.
Yet
he
thought
those
Symptomes
were
reducible
to
the
Freaks
of
H●pochondriak
Melancholy
,
and
therefore
put
her
in
such
a
course
as
was
proper
against
that
kind
of
Malady
.
Upon
which
being
freed
,
for
some
time
:
he
was
alarumed
that
the
Child
was
returned
to
Town
worse
then
ever
for
having
his
assistance
He
then
was
frequently
with
her
,
and
observed
her
narrowly
;
so
that
he
was
confident
she
had
no
visible
correspondent
to
Subminister
Hair
,
Straw
,
Coal-cinders
,
Hay
,
and
such
like
trash
unto
her
;
all
which
upon
several
occasions
he
saw
her
put
out
of
her
Mouth
without
being
wet
;
Nay
rather
as
they
had
been
dryed
with
Artifice
,
and
actually
Hot
above
the
Natural
Warmth
of
the
Body
;
sometimes
after
severe
fits
,
and
other
times
without
Trouble
when
discoursing
with
him
.
When
she
had
not
only
light
Convulsive
Motions
,
but
to
a
high
degree
,
such
Rigidity
of
the
whole
Body
,
as
we
call
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
she
did
not
fancy
as
at
other
times
,
that
she
saw
these
persons
already
named
about
her
:
But
the
upcasting
of
the
Trash
abovementioned
did
no
sooner
cease
,
then
in
all
her
fits
when
she
was
able
to
speak
any
,
she
always
cryed
out
that
they
were
pricking
or
pinching
her
.
He
saw
her
also
when
free
of
fits
suddenly
seiz'd
with
Dumbness
,
&c.
And
this
he
solemnly
declares
himself
to
have
seen
and
●andled
,
and
were
it
not
for
the
Hay
,
Straw
,
&c.
He
should
not
despair
to
reduce
the
other
Symptomes
to
their
proper
Classes
in
the
Catolague
of
humane
Diseases
.
And
in
respect
of
these
and
some
other
Specialitys
,
the
Doctor
thereafter
being
adduced
upon
Oath
in
the
Tryal
,
Depones
,
that
in
his
Opinion
these
things
did
not
proceed
from
Natural
Causes
arising
from
the
Patients
Body
.
Mr.
Marthali
the
Apothecary
,
concurres
with
the
Doctor
:
And
gives
some
particular
instances
of
his
own
Observation
:
And
amongst
the
rest
,
That
the
Girle
having
fallen
Head-long
upon
the
ground
,
as
she
had
been
thrown
down
with
violence
,
fell
a
reasoning
very
distinctly
thus
:
Katie
what
ails
thee
at
me
,
I
'm
sure
I
never
did
thee
wrong
,
come
let
us
'gree
,
let
there
be
no
more
difference
betwixt
us
,
let
us
shake
Hands
together
(
putting
furth
her
Hand
as
if
she
would
take
another
by
the
Hand
,
then
taking
in
her
Hand
again
,
she
said
)
well
Katie
I
cannot
help
it
,
ye
will
not
'gree
with
me
:
And
immedatly
she
cryed
,
fell
into
a
Swerff
,
and
out
of
that
into
a
Rage
,
wherein
she
continued
without
intermission
for
about
half
an
hour
;
and
perfectly
recovered
.
Then
she
told
him
,
that
she
saw
Katie
Campbel
,
Nanfii
Nasmith
,
&c.
and
many
more
;
Campbel
was
going
to
thrust
a
Sword
into
her
side
,
which
made
her
so
desirous
to
be
aggreed
with
her
;
and
when
the
Girle
told
him
this
,
she
instantly
fell
into
another
fit
as
formerly
,
in
which
she
continued
another
half
hour
,
&c.
Dated
1
January
1697.
During
the
Dependence
of
the
Trial
,
Janet
and
Margaret
R●dgers
confessed
in
this
manner
,
The
Commissioners
had
adjourned
for
two
several
dyets
;
and
though
they
were
to
meet
on
the
Third
.
yet
it
was
not
expected
that
they
would
proceed
till
providence
might
clear
the
prisoners
guilt
by
further
testimonys
of
those
who
might
come
to
confess
.
The
very
morning
of
the
third
Term
,
the
R●dgers
did
confess
,
which
was
a
Surp●yse
to
every
one
that
came
up
to
attend
the
Court
,
since
these
,
as
they
were
a
Women
,
and
were
not
formerly
noticed
as
others
were
;
so
they
confessed
of
free
motion
without
any
persons
desiring
it
of
them
at
the
time
;
they
had
not
such
means
of
instruction
as
were
administred
to
others
:
And
the
conjuncture
of
many
circumstan●es
were
altogether
Singu●ar
,
Their
confessions
did
coincide
as
to
the
Mestings
and
●hings
acted
therein
,
with
the
three
former
confessants
,
and
the
other
evidences
of
the
visible
matters
of
Fact
.
Only
th●y
were
so
pointed
as
to
condescend
upon
some
of
the
pannals
whom
they
did
not
see
at
these
re●devouze●
;
and
great
care
was
taken
to
●ompare
their
Testimonys
with
what
had
been
already
discovered
,
and
to
expiscate
their
certain
knowledge
by
new
interrog●tors
when
t●ey
were
sep●rate
from
one
another
&c.
The
whole
Crisis
had
such
an
evidence
that
now
the
Com●
mis
ioners
,
with
the
general
approbation
of
the
most
intelligent
of
the
Countrey
,
who
came
in
to
attend
the
Court
,
allowed
the
going
on
of
the
Process
to
debate
o●
the
Relevancy
,
and
putting
seven
of
●he
best
known
criminals
,
for
whom
an
Advocat
appeared
,
to
t●e
knowledge
of
an
●nquest
:
According
whereunto
there
were
some
days
allowed
for
the
Pannals
giving
in
their
Informations
upon
the
relevancy
:
and
at
the
Term
;
there
was
a
great
time
spent
in
adducing
the
Probation
an
account
whereof
is
referred
to
another
place
.
Upon
the
21
of
May
1697.
After
tryal
of
the
Seven
Witches
,
there
is
an
Attestation
Subscrived
by
Mr.
Patrick
Simpson
Minister
at
Renfrew
,
Walter
Scot
Baillie
there
,
&c.
of
this
import
.
John
Reid
Smith
at
Inchennan
prisoner
,
did
in
prese●ce
of
the
said
persons
and
some
others
;
Declare
,
that
about
a
Year
ago
the
Devil
(
whom
he
knew
to
be
such
thereafter
)
appeared
to
him
when
he
was
travelling
in
the
Night
time
,
but
spoke
none
to
him
at
the
first
encounter
.
At
the
second
appearance
he
gave
him
a
Bite
or
Nipp
in
his
Loyn
;
which
he
found
painfull
for
a
Fortnight
.
That
the
third
time
he
appeared
to
him
as
a
Black
Man
,
&c.
Desired
him
to
engage
in
his
Service
upon
assurance
of
getting
Gear
and
Comfort
in
the
World
;
since
he
should
not
want
any
thing
that
he
would
ask
in
the
Devils
Name
:
And
then
he
renounced
his
Baptism
,
putting
the
one
Hand
to
the
Crown
of
his
Head
,
and
the
other
to
the
Sole
of
his
Foot
;
thereby
giving
himself
up
to
Sat●ns
Service
:
After
which
the
pain
of
the
Bite
or
Nipp
ceased
.
He
told
that
hitherto
there
was
none
others
present
;
but
thereafter
he
was
at
several
Meetings
,
particularly
that
in
Bargarrans
Yeard
,
about
the
time
when
there
was
a
Fast
for
Christian
Shaw
,
where
the
Devil
appeared
in
the
same
kind
of
Garb
as
he
first
appeared
to
him
,
and
they
consulted
Christians
Death
either
by
Worrieing
or
Drowning
her
in
the
Well
;
and
the
Devil
said
,
he
should
warrand
them
,
that
they
should
neither
be
Heard
,
Seen
,
nor
Confess
,
to
which
end
he
gave
every
one
of
them
a
bitt
of
Flesh
,
that
the
Declarant
got
,
but
let
it
fall
,
and
did
not
Eat
it
.
Thereafter
in
presence
of
the
Laird
of
Jordanhill
the
Minister
,
Mr.
Andrew
Cochran
town
Clerk
,
and
Baillie
Paterson
,
he
owned
his
former
Confessions
:
And
being
enquired
of
Jordanhill
how
they
were
advertised
of
their
Meetings
,
he
said
that
ordinarly
at
their
Meetings
the
time
of
the
next
was
appointed
;
but
for
particular
warning
there
appeared
a
Black
Dog
with
a
Chain
about
his
Neck
,
who
tinkling
it
,
they
were
to
follow
&c.
And
being
enquired
by
the
Minister
if
he
did
now
wholly
renounce
the
Devil
(
for
he
had
formerly
told
how
Satan
had
not
performed
his
promise
)
and
give
himself
to
JESUS
CHRIST
,
and
desire
to
find
mercy
of
God
through
Him
:
he
assented
thereunto
.
It
is
to
be
observed
that
John
Reid
after
his
Confession
had
called
out
of
the
prison
Window
,
desireing
Baillie
Scott
to
keep
that
old
Body
Angus
Forrester
,
who
had
been
his
fellow
prisoner
,
closs
and
secure
;
whereupon
the
company
asked
John
when
they
were
leaving
him
on
Friday
night
the
21
of
May
,
whether
he
desired
company
or
would
be
afraid
alone
,
he
said
he
had
no
fear
of
any
thing
:
So
being
left
till
Saturdays
Forenoon
,
he
was
found
in
this
posture
.
Viz.
sitting
upon
a
stool
which
was
on
the
Hearth
of
the
Chimney
,
with
his
feet
on
the
floor
and
his
Body
straight
upward
,
his
shoulders
touching
the
lin●el
of
the
Chimney
,
but
his
Neck
tyed
with
his
own
neck-cloath
(
whereof
the
knot
was
behind
)
to
a
small
stick
thrust
into
a
clift
above
the
lintell
of
th●
Chimney
;
upon
which
the
Company
,
and
especially
John
Campbel
a
Chyrurgeon
who
was
called
,
thought
at
first
in
respect
of
his
being
in
an
ordinary
posture
of
sitting
,
and
the
neck
cloath
not
having
any
run-loup
but
an
ordinary
knot
which
was
not
very
strait
,
and
the
sticks
not
having
the
strength
to
beat
the
weight
of
his
Body
or
the
struggl●
;
that
he
had
not
been
quite
dead
;
but
finding
it
otherways
and
that
he
was
in
such
a
situation
that
he
could
not
have
been
the
ac●or
thereof
hims●●f
,
concl●ded
that
some
extraordinary
couse
had
done
it
,
espe●ially
considering
that
the
Door
of
the
Room
was
secured
,
and
that
●●e●e
was
a
●oard
set
over
the
Window
which
was
not
there
the
night
before
when
they
●●it
him
.
There
shall
little
be
added
anent
what
past
at
the
Execution
of
the
seven
Witches
,
because
there
is
no
Subcribed
Attestation
there
anent
:
And
the
design
of
the
Publishers
has
been
to
advance
nothing
but
what
stands
Warranded
by
Testimonies
of
known
Credit
beyond
Contradiction
.
Yet
this
much
is
Nottour
;
that
when
they
were
going
to
the
Stake
,
one
of
the
Lindsays
was
overheard
to
say-to
the
other
,
Now
Brother
it
is
time
that
we
should
Confess
,
since
our
keeping
it
up
wiill
serve
us
to
no
purpose
,
or
the
like
Expression
;
To
which
the
other
Answered
that
they
should
never
do
that
,
&c.
And
Margaret
Lang
,
before
&
about
Execution
,
let
drop
at
Minuts
of
the
Devils
Inadvertance
,
That
when
the
Devil
first
appeared
she
knew
him
not
to
be
such
till
afterwards
;
that
he
gave
her
the
insensible
Marks
found
upon
her
Body
:
She
yielded
to
engage
her self
his
Service
by
a
Covenant
,
and
besides
publick
meetings
she
had
been
above
80
times
in
private
Conferences
with
him
.
Being
enquired
by
a
near
Relation
of
her
own
anent
her
being
in
Bargarrans
House
Tormenting
Christian
Shaw
,
Answered
in
these
Words
,
the
Devil
having
an
absolute
Power
and
Dominion
over
me
carryed
my
shape
wither
he
would
;
and
it
is
known
how
she
Confessed
unnatural
Lust
,
and
profound
Hypocrisy
,
&c.
Tho
truely
it
did
appear
from
her
concurring
Mein
and
Circumstances
,
that
these
things
fell
from
her
at
Seasons
,
when
Natural
Ingenuity
and
the
vigour
of
Truth
got
the
Start
of
Satan's
Manacles
.
So
Agnes
Naismith
&c.
Frequently
told
the
Minister
,
that
their
Heart
and
Tongue
were
bound
up
in
such
manner
,
that
they
could
not
express
what
they
would
:
And
sometimes
it
appeared
by
ocular
Inspection
of
their
visage
,
that
convulsive
Dampts
did
seize
their
Heads
upon
getting
out
the
initial
words
of
any
such
attempt
.
There
are
two
remarkable
instances
in
the
Case
of
Katharine
Campbel
,
who
was
chief
Instrument
and
Author
of
the
Girles
trouble
.
Viz.
An
Eminent
Minister
discoursing
before
famous
Witnesses
to
Katharine
,
and
enquiring
if
she
did
not
distinctly
remember
the
Godly
Counsels
,
and
gracious
Admonitions
;
which
Christian
Shaw
while
in
a
fit
mentioned
in
the
Narrative
,
Page
,
13.
gave
her
at
a
certain
time
,
and
instancing
some
particular
thereof
:
Her
answer
was
with
heavy
Groans
,
Yes
I
Remember
.
But
being
urged
wherefore
she
would
not
Confess
the
rest
as
well
as
that
passage
;
and
finding
herself
thereby
to
be
Gravelled
:
She
began
to
Retract
and
seemed
Dampt
,
not
being
able
to
Extricat
her
Answer
before
mentioned
.
This
occurred
while
she
was
in
prison
,
before
the
tryal
:
And
after
it
,
she
in
presence
of
several
Witnesses
,
did
get
out
these
words
,
That
the
Doom
pronounced
on
her
was
most
just
,
and
that
she
could
not
free
her self
of
Witchcraft
:
But
upon
such
attempts
she
fell
down
Dead
,
strangly
distended
,
and
that
six
or
seven
times
Successivly
,
with
a
Suddeness
,
that
was
both
Surprising
&
Convincing
to
the
Spectators
:
At
which
occasion
it
was
observed
,
that
immediatly
before
her
falling
into
these
fits
;
and
upon
her
Essaying
to
speak
when
there
were
Charges
laid
Home
on
her
Natural
Conscience
;
her
Mouth
seemed
to
Contract
▪
And
she
uttered
heavy
Moans
;
whereupon
did
follow
her
Convulsion
:
but
after
raising
out
of
them
,
she
turned
to
be
Obstinat
and
Inflexible
:
And
whenever
there
was
any
appearance
of
her
being
more
Pl●ant
,
the
foresaid
fits
did
overtake
her
.
There
is
one
thing
further
;
which
does
astruct
the
Credibility
of
what
these
Confessants
averred
,
viz.
That
there
are
some
others
,
both
Men
and
Women
in
the
Countrey
,
who
have
confessed
and
told
the
same
things
before
some
of
the
best
Gentry
and
others
,
whose
Care
could
proceed
no
further
for
want
of
Authority
,
which
in
due
time
will
,
no
doubt
,
not
suffer
these
Witches
to
live
,
whom
Divine
and
Human
Laws
have
so
justly
ordained
to
be
cutt
off
.
Wherefore
till
the
Event
of
a
further
Discovery
,
there
ha●l
only
be
added
some
passages
which
were
omitted
in
the
Narrative
,
tho
they
be
attested
by
some
of
the
same
persons
that
were
Witnesses
to
the
other
Matters
mentioned
therein
.
Particularly
,
the
Girle
declares
,
that
in
one
of
her
Conflicts
with
the
Devil
,
he
told
her
how
a
certain
Minister
(
for
whom
she
had
a
speciall
respect
)
did
Compile
his
Sermons
through
the
Week
what
Books
he
chiefly
made
use
of
and
several
other
Matters
anent
his
Method
of
study
in
his
Closet
that
no.
Mortal
could
know
by
ordinary
Means
:
By
which
,
no
doubt
,
Satan
did
partly
design
tho
by
a
ver●
false
Argument
)
to
raise
the
esteem
of
Books
above
Sermons
collected
out
of
them
:
Concealing
in
the
mean
time
,
both
the
Gift
of
improving
Helps
,
and
the
Blessing
promised
to
the
Hearer
of
the
word
preacht
.
When
the
●ad
Bargarran
received
the
two
pieces
of
Red
Cloath
,
that
the
Girle
had
tor●●●om
one
of
the
Witches
Sleeves
as
is
above-narrated
;
she
locked
up
the
same
and
keeped
the
Key
Notwistanding
of
which
Caution
,
some
Friends
having
come
to
Visit
the
Girle
,
and
being
desirous
to
see
the
foresaids
●ieces
of
●loath
;
she
being
in
one
of
her
fits
,
laughed
,
and
told
has
her
Mother
needed
not
to
seek
for
them
in
the
place
where
they
were
locked
up
;
the
Witches
having
taken
them
away
,
and
laid
them
in
a
Corner
of
the
Celler
;
and
accordingly
being
searched
for
,
they
were
found
in
the
particular
place
condescended
on
.
There
was
another
like
passage
which
occurred
to
a
Friend
,
who
came
in
with
Bargarran
for
soliciting
an
Commission
from
the
Council
:
For
he
having
brought
alongst
with
him
those
pieces
of
Cloath
,
and
buttoned
his
Pocket
on
them
at
Night
;
and
put
it
in
security
as
he
thought
;
behold
they
are
amissing
in
the
morning
;
but
after
search
are
found
in
a
good
distance
from
the
P●cket
;
though
none
visible
had
been
in
the
Room
to
open
it
and
carry
them
off
.
Finally
,
this
Girle
did
in
discourse
,
discover
a
reat
Sagacity
;
yet
accompained
with
extraordinary
Modesty
:
And
amongst
other
instances
,
the
did
observe
the
Doors
and
windows
open
and
shut
again
,
upon
the
Witches
entry
thereat
:
There
was
at
no
time
such
a
number
of
them
about
her
as
●he
Room
might
not
very
well
contain
,
with
the
visible
persons
that
were
present
therein
:
Sh●
ob●erved
them
to
shift
their
place
with
a
great
Agility
,
when
any
other
came
into
it
o●
attacqu●d
upon
her
poin●ing
them
:
And
she
often
averted
from
the
instance
of
the
●pirit
that
spoke
to
her
above
her
Head
,
●old
their
Na●es
,
and
gave
her
other
means
of
discovering
of
them
,
&c.
That
Satan
does
often
contrive
thei●
R●ine
,
by
the
most
undiscernible
Methods
he
can
,
because
an
open
D●ed
would
scar
others
to
undertake
with
so
faithless
a
Master
&c.
An
Account
of
TWO
LETTERS
Which
contain
a
SUMMARY
Of
what
appeared
most
MATERIAL
or
CURIOUS
In
the
Trial
of
the
SEVEN
WITCHES
Who
were
Condemn'd
to
be
Execute
in
the
West
.
THE
Truth
of
the
strange
Things
mentioned
in
the
preceeding
Narrative
was
at
first
,
carefully
searched
into
only
by
private
Persons
:
But
at
last
became
so
nottour
,
that
,
upon
Application
founded
on
a
Journal
of
these
extraordinary
Events
,
attested
by
many
of
the
Gentry
in
the
Country
;
the
Council
gave
a
Commission
for
enquiring
thereanent
.
The
Honourable
Persons
to
whom
this
was
recommended
,
did
,
with
great
Impartiality
and
Exactness
,
make
a
Report
:
which
,
in
Providence
,
proved
a
Mean
of
moving
the
Government
to
notice
the
Execution
of
Justice
on
some
of
these
Witches
,
who
otherways
,
might
have
lurked
without
being
discoverered
.
For
,
hereupon
,
the
Council
directed
a
second
Commission
,
for
Trial
of
those
who
appeared
to
them
to
be
most
loaded
by
the
preliminary
Probation
adduced
on
the
first
.
Several
of
these
Judges
were
not
only
persons
of
Honour
,
but
also
of
singular
Knowledge
and
Experience
:
Conform
whereunto
they
did
proceed
with
singular
Caution
,
and
were
so
far
from
Precipitancy
in
the
Affair
,
that
,
after
several
Diets
of
Court
,
they
adjourned
to
a
long
Term
,
that
,
in
the
mean
time
,
the
Prisoners
might
be
provided
of
Advocates
.
Accordingly
an
Advocate
compeared
for
them
,
and
managed
their
Defence
with
all
the
Accuracy
that
could
be
expected
.
There
were
above
Twenty
Hours
imploied
,
at
one
Diet
,
in
Examination
of
Witnesses
:
And
the
Inquest
being
înclosed
,
did
consume
about
six
Hours
in
comparing
the
Probation-Whereupon
Seven
of
the
most
notorious
Criminals
were
Convict
and
Condemned
.
The
Crimes
libelled
and
found
proven
against
them
,
were
not
meer
spectral
Imaginations
;
but
open
and
obvious
Facts
:
viz.
The
Murders
of
some
Children
,
and
Persons
of
Age
;
and
the
Torturing
of
several
Persons
,
particularly
Bargarran's
Daughter
:
And
both
these
,
not
at
a
distances
,
but
contignously
by
natural
Means
of
Cords
,
Pins
,
and
the
like
.
Besides
the
other
ordinary
Works
of
Witchcraft
,
such
as
Reouncing
Baptism
,
entering
in
Contract
with
,
and
Adoring
the
Devil
under
a
Corporeal
shape
,
&c.
which
could
not
but
be
sustained
Relevant
in
Scotland
,
since
there
is
an
express
Stature
Parl.
9.
Act.
73
:
Queen
Mary
,
appointing
the
pain
of
Death
to
such
.
To
make
the
Probation
the
more
convincing
,
it
was
adduced
orderly
in
three
Periods
The
First
consisted
of
unsuspected
Witnesses
,
who
proved
Fact
:
From
whence
it
was
necessarly
inferred
,
That
there
was
Witchcraft
in
the
Case
.
The
Second
did
include
,
also
unexceptionable
Witnesses
,
who
deponed
upon
Facts
;
which
made
it
probable
,
if
not
necessary
,
that
the
Pannals
were
the
Witches
.
The
Third
did
comprehend
six
positive
Testimonies
,
of
these
who
did
See
and
Hear
these
Witches
committing
the
Malefices
libelled
.
The
only
valuable
Subject
of
Debate
,
was
anent
the
Import
of
these
last
Testimonies
;
five
whereof
were
by
Confessants
,
who
had
been
at
the
Meetings
in
which
were
committed
the
Crimes
libelled
;
and
the
sixth
of
Bargarran's
Daughter
,
who
was
one
of
the
Persons
maleficiat
.
The
antecedent
part
of
the
Probation
was
by
Witnesses
beyond
exception
:
And
the
Judges
upon
a
long
Debate
did
sustain
Four
of
these
Six
only
cum
nota
,
and
two
of
them
to
be
Examined
without
Oath
.
So
nice
were
they
in
favours
of
the
Pannals
Lives
,
since
some
of
these
Witnesses
might
have
been
admitted
in
such
a
Crime
without
any
quality
,
by
the
most
scroupulous
Judicatory
in
Europe
.
But
all
things
were
carried
on
in
this
Procedures
with
Tenderness
and
Moderation
:
For
even
the
Advocates
.
who
were
sent
to
prosecute
the
Endytment
by
His
Majesty's
Council
and
Advocate
,
did
not
act
with
the
Byass
of
Parties
;
but
on
the
contrary
,
showed
an
equal
Concern
to
have
the
Pannals
assoilaied
,
if
it
could
be
found
compatible
with
Justilse
This
is
the
Reason
for
which
the
Publisher
doubts
not
,
but
the
two
following
Letters
(
the
one
whereof
gives
a
Compend
of
the
Advocates
Speech
to
the
Jury
,
and
the
other
,
of
their
Answers
to
the
Objections
against
the
Confessant
Witnesses
)
will
afford
a
satisfying
view
of
the
chiefest
part
▪
of
the
Trial
:
since
the
Objections
which
were
,
or
might
have
been
made
are
therein
Stated
and
Answered
,
or
Anticipat
and
Prevented
;
and
the
intended
Brevity
would
not
permit
to
printet
this
time
the
whole
Process
,
which
being
extant
upon
Record
,
any
who
are
Curious
may
have
easy
access
thereunto
.
There
is
scarcely
need
to
take
notice
of
a
late
Scurrilous
Pamphlet
,
that
has
been
printed
in
England
,
and
pretends
to
give
an
account
of
those
proceedings
:
For
any
who
reads
it
may
easily
find
,
that
the
Author
has
been
either
.
Fool
,
Know
,
or
both
,
there
being
neither
good
Language
,
Sense
,
or
Truth
in
the
most
part
of
it
.
LETTER
FIRST
.
SIR
,
YOU
having
told
me
,
that
the
odd
Passages
which
occur
in
the
West
,
have
put
many
of
your
Neighbours
and
your self
;
upon
reading
all
the
Books
you
can
get
treating
of
Witchcraft
:
And
therefore
desired
me
to
transmit
to
you
my
Observations
at
the
Court
:
I
shall
not
pre-occupy
your
Opinion
by
giving
them
in
my
own
Form
;
but
herein
I
send
to
you
the
exactest
Duplicat
of
the
Advocates
Speech
to
the
Inquest
that
I
could
obtain
;
and
by
the
next
Post
you
shall
have
something
more
Curious
:
viz.
A
Collection
of
their
Answers
to
the
Objections
against
the
Six
last
Witnesses
,
that
were
adduced
for
concluding
the
Proof
:
Having
these
,
you
will
want
little
that
could
be
agreeable
to
such
an
accurat
Gust
as
yours
is
.
The
SPEECHES
to
the
INQUEST
Were
of
this
import
.
Good
Men
of
Inquest
,
YOU
having
sitten
above
Twenty
Hours
in
over
hearing
the
Probation
:
And
being
now
to
be
inclosed
,
where
,
it
's
like
,
you
will
take
no
small
time
to
Re-consider
and
Compare
it
:
We
shall
not
detain
you
with
summing
up
the
same
in
particular
;
but
shall
only
suggest
some
Things
,
whereof
it
is
fit
you
take
special
notice
in
your
perusal
of
it
:
viz.
1mo
The
Nature
of
your
own
Power
,
and
the
Management
thereof
:
2do
.
The
Object
of
this
Power
which
lies
before
you
;
wherein
you
are
to
consider
,
in
the
First
place
,
Whether
or
not
there
has
been
Witchcraft
in
the
Malefices
libelled
?
And
,
in
the
Next
place
,
whether
or
not
these
Pannals
are
the
Witches
?
As
to
your
Power
,
it
is
certain
,
that
you
are
both
Judges
and
Witnesses
,
by
the
Opinion
of
our
Lawyers
and
Custom
:
Therefore
you
are
called
out
of
the
Neighbourhood
,
as
presumed
best
to
know
the
Quality
of
the
Pannals
,
and
the
Notority
of
their
Guilt
or
Innocence
.
Your
Oath
is
,
That
you
shall
all
Truth
tell
,
and
no
Truth
conceal
;
which
does
plainly
imply
,
That
you
are
to
Condemn
or
Assoilzie
,
conform
to
your
proper
Conviction
.
Such
is
the
excellent
Constitution
of
Juries
in
England
:
and
ought
to
hold
more
specially
in
this
Circumstantiat
Case
,
where
there
is
such
a
Chain
of
different
Kinds
of
Probation
concurring
against
the
same
Pannals
,
as
will
appear
by
the
Review
thereof
in
its
proper
place
We
are
not
to
press
you
with
the
ordinary
Severity
of
threatning
in
Assyse
of
Error
,
in
case
you
should
Absolve
;
but
wholly
leaves
you
to
the
Conduct
of
GOD
and
your
own
Consciences
,
and
desire
that
you
proceed
with
all
the
Care
of
the
Pannals
Lives
that
is
possible
for
you
,
as
the
Honourable
Judges
have
set
to
you
a
desirable
Pattern
,
in
their
great
Caution
thereanent
.
As
to
the
Probation
it self
;
you
see
,
that
it
is
divided
in
Three
Parts
,
viz.
The
extraordinariness
of
the
Malefices
:
The
Probability
of
the
concurring
Adminicles
:
And
the
Clearness
of
the
positive
Probation
.
As
to
the
First
part
,
The
Malefices
,
or
Corpora
delicti
,
are
proven
by
unexcepable
Witnesses
,
to
have
fallen
out
in
such
an
odd
and
extraordinary
manner
,
that
it
●oints
out
some
other
Cause
,
than
the
ordinary
course
of
Nature
,
to
have
produced
these
Effects
.
For
clearing
of
this
,
particulatly
in
relation
to
the
Torments
of
Bargarran's
Daughter
,
you
may
consider
not
only
the
extraordinary
Things
that
could
not
proceed
from
a
Natural
Disease
,
which
ly
proven
before
you
;
but
also
several
other
Matters
of
Fact
,
which
is
nottour
;
have
been
seen
by
some
of
your selves
,
and
ly
here
in
a
Journal
of
her
Sufferings
:
Every
Article
whereof
is
attested
by
the
Subscriptions
of
Persons
of
entire
Credit
,
before
the
honourable
Commissioners
appointed
by
His
Majesty's
Privy
Council
,
for
making
Enquiry
there-anent
This
Girl
's
throwing
out
of
Hair
,
Pins
,
and
Coals
of
greater
heat
than
that
of
her
Body
or
Blood
;
as
also
so
dry
,
that
they
appeared
not
to
have
come
out
of
her
Stomack
;
nor
had
she
any
press
of
Vomiting
at
the
time
,
that
she
declared
the
same
to
have
been
put
in
her
Mouth
by
her
Tormenters
:
Is
deponed
by
Doctor
Brisban
,
in
his
Opinion
not
to
proceed
from
a
Natural
Caule
.
She
was
not
Tormented
by
any
of
the
Pannals
after
their
Imprisonment
:
Except
two
Nights
by
Katharine
Campbell
;
which
being
a
Surprise
,
it
was
thereafter
discovered
,
that
these
two
Nights
the
Jaylor's
Wife
had
got
out
Katharine
Campbell
to
Spin
in
her
House
.
She
having
been
speaking
to
one
of
her
Tormenters
as
present
(
tho'
Invisible
to
the
By-standers
)
and
asking
how
her
Tormenter
had
got
these
clouted
Red
Sleeves
;
she
suddenly
gets
up
,
takes
hold
of
them
,
the
Company
hear
a
shreid
,
and
she
pulls
away
two
pieces
of
red
Cloth
,
which
all
the
By-standers
beheld
with
amazement
in
her
Hands
:
Nor
was
there
any
other
peice
of
this
kind
of
Cloth
to
be
found
in
the
Room
at
that
occasion
.
She
told
,
that
her
Tormenters
were
giving
her
a
Glass
of
Sack
,
an
Orange-pile
,
&c.
(
thereby
ensnaring
her
to
accept
of
a
Favour
from
them
)
and
accordingly
she
was
seen
to
move
her
Lips
,
and
to
have
the
Orange-pile
betwixt
her
Teeth
;
tho'
there
was
no
visible
Hand
that
could
have
done
it
.
She
advertised
before
hand
,
that
one
of
her
Tormenters
was
to
be
at
the
Door
at
a
particular
Hour
:
And
that
another
of
them
was
in
the
Kitchin
;
before
any
did
tell
her
thereof
:
which
accordingly
fell
out
:
And
these
being
brought
to
her
presence
,
became
obnoxious
to
the
ordinary
Means
of
Discovery
.
When
her
Glove
fell
down
from
her
,
at
a
time
that
several
persons
were
about
her
:
it
was
lifted
again
by
a
Hand
invisible
to
them
.
She
was
not
only
transported
throw
the
Hall
and
down
Stairs
,
without
perceiving
her
Feet
to
touch
the
Ground
:
But
also
was
hurried
in
a
flight
up
Stairs
:
And
when
a
Minister
endeavoured
to
retain
her
;
he
found
a
sensible
weight
,
besides
her
own
Strength
,
drawing
her
from
him
.
When
she
complained
,
that
her
Tormenters
had
bitten
and
scratched
her
;
the
Steads
of
the
Nails
and
Teeth
were
seen
upon
her
Skin
,
with
Blood
and
Spittle
:
about
the
wounds
,
which
were
above
Twenty
four
;
while
neither
her
own
,
or
any
others
Teeth
that
were
visible
,
could
have
done
it
.
She
was
most
vehemently
distorted
,
upon
attempting
to
Tell
,
or
even
Write
the
Names
of
her
Tormenters
:
yet
that
ceased
as
to
any
of
them
,
how
soon
that
person
was
aliunde
delated
;
and
particularly
she
had
liberty
,
after
many
painful
Attempts
,
to
Accuse
Margaret
Laing
,
how
soon
a
Charm
of
Hair
to
restrain
her
,
which
Margaret
had
left
behind
the
Door
,
was
found
and
burnt
;
the
Girle
having
told
it
to
have
been
tim
,
in
manner
mentioned
in
the
Depositions
.
She
did
thr●w
out
no
more
Hair
after
the
finding
of
a
Ball
of
Hair
,
of
the
same
Colour
and
Kind
with
that
thrown
out
by
the
Girle
,
in
Katharine
Campbel's
Pocket
,
with
Pins
in
it
,
and
the
Burning
of
it
.
After
Agnas
Nasmith
had
prayed
for
her
,
she
did
appear
to
her
,
but
not
tormen●
her
.
She
foretold
,
that
her
Tormenters
had
conserted
to
throw
her
in
a
Fit
,
(
whereof
they
did
premonish
,
of
design
to
fright
her
to
Renounce
her
Baptism
by
the
terror
)
at
a
certain
Hour
,
and
had
left
one
of
their
Number
to
execute
it
:
According
whereunto
,
there
was
a
Woman
with
a
Red
Coat
seen
under
a
Tree
in
the
Orchard
,
and
the
Torment
was
brought
on
at
the
time
appointed
.
When
she
told
,
that
there
was
something
tormenting
her
under
the
Cloaths
;
the
Spectators
saw
,
the
Bed-cloaths
move
in
an
extraordinary
manner
,
after
the
Girle
had
been
raised
out
of
them
.
When
she
complained
that
she
was
Beaten
:
the
By-standers
heard
the
Noise
of
the
Stroaks
She
cried
out
at
a
time
,
that
her
Theigh
was
hurt
:
And
one
of
the
Company
having
searched
her
Pocket
,
found
a
Knife
;
but
unfolded
:
However
,
having
folded
up
the
same
,
and
put
it
in
a
second
time
;
she
cries
of
new
:
And
upon
the
second
search
,
it
(
tho'
secured
by
the
Spring
)
is
found
open
,
to
the
great
wonder
of
the
Beholders
;
since
they
did
watch
,
that
no
visible
thing
could
have
possibly
opened
it
.
She
told
of
a
Charm
under
the
Bed
:
And
accordingly
it
was
found
in
the
the
shape
of
an
Egg
,
which
melted
away
being
put
in
the
Fire
:
She
told
also
,
that
her
Sister
that
was
boarded
abroad
,
had
Charms
put
above
her
in
the
House
,
and
would
not
recover
of
the
decaying
Sickness
till
she
were
brought
out
of
it
:
According
whereunto
,
the
Child
being
brought
home
,
she
straight
way
recovered
.
She
told
of
their
meeting
in
the
Yeard
of
Bargarran
,
for
Consulting
anent
the
destroying
of
her
:
And
accordingly
the
Confessants
have
deponed
,
That
they
did
meet
and
consult
her
Ruine
in
that
place
.
The
Story
anent
her
telling
,
That
the
Commissioners
,
tho'
at
three
Miles
distance
,
had
granted
a
Warrand
to
the
Sherriff
,
to
apprehend
one
of
her
Tormenters
:
Her
telling
so
perfect
an
account
of
the
Sheriff
,
and
of
Mr
Guthri●
who
was
with
him
,
while
her
Eyes
were
cieled
and
fast
:
Her
being
in
excessive
Torments
(
as
she
fore-told
)
till
that
Person
was
apprehended
,
and
immediatly
thereupon
,
tho'
at
many
Miles
distance
,
her
telling
that
her
Tormenters
were
now
taken
,
betwixt
Twelve
and
One
a
clock
in
the
Morning
;
and
the
Sheriff
when
he
returned
,
did
declare
the
Seisure
to
have
been
about
that
time
:
Is
so
nottour
and
so
well
attested
,
that
we
need
only
to
put
you
in
mind
thereof
.
Her
falling
in
Fits
upon
the
sight
,
or
touch
of
her
Tormenters
,
was
no
effect
of
Imagination
:
For
she
was
fully
hood-winked
with
a
Cloak
,
so
as
she
saw
no
Body
whatsomever
;
yet
upon
the
approach
of
her
Tormenter
,
she
immediatly
fell
down
dead
:
Whereas
she
remained
no
ways
startled
upon
the
touch
of
any
other
:
Which
Experiment
was
tried
for
ascertaining
this
Mean
of
Discovery
.
Finally
,
she
is
naturally
Saggacious
and
Observant
:
And
discovered
her
int●grity
in
face
of
Court
▪
For
when
the
President
asked
,
Whether
or
not
she
knew
one
of
the
Pannals
Name
that
was
to
be
pricked
?
She
answered
,
That
tho'
she
knew
her
well
enough
of
her self
;
yet
one
had
told
her
the
Name
of
this
Pannal
,
when
she
was
sent
for
to
be
confronted
with
her
:
So
far
did
this
Girle
discover
her
aversion
from
any
thing
that
might
seem
intended
to
aid
unfairly
the
natural
Evidence
of
Truth
;
and
her
Firmness
to
the
outmost
against
Temptations
of
becoming
a
Witch
;
particularly
against
the
last
Assault
of
Satan
,
wherein
he
perswaded
her
at
least
to
go
to
their
Meetings
;
and
she
answered
,
that
she
would
not
follow
such
a
base
fallen
Creature
:
And
he
rejoining
,
that
she
would
go
to
Hell
however
for
her
other
Sins
;
and
she
answering
,
that
he
was
a
Liar
from
the
beginning
,
and
the
Blood
of
JESUS
would
cleanse
her
●rom
all
Iniquity
:
Whereupon
he
disappeared
,
and
she
perfitly
recovered
upon
the
Sabbath
thereafter
,
was
an
happy
End
put
to
this
fearful
Tragedy
of
Witchcraft
,
and
confirms
to
Conviction
,
the
Reality
of
it
.
As
to
the
Murdering
of
the
Children
and
the
Minister
libelled
;
you
may
observe
several
extraordinary
things
appearing
in
them
;
particulatly
the
Witnesses
depone
,
the
Minister
to
have
been
in
excessive
Torments
,
and
of
an
unusual
colour
,
to
have
been
of
sound
Judgement
;
and
yet
he
did
tell
of
several
Women
being
about
him
,
and
that
he
heard
the
noise
of
the
Door
opening
,
when
none
else
did
hear
it
.
The
Children
were
well
at
Night
,
and
found
Dead
in
the
Morning
,
with
a
little
Blood
on
their
Noses
,
and
Blaes
at
the
roots
of
their
Ears
;
which
were
obvious
Simptoms
of
Stranglings
:
Besides
that
it
is
testified
,
that
the
Mother
of
one
of
them
,
cried
out
,
Matthew
,
Matthew
,
the
Chi●d
is
dead
-
And
the
House
of
the
other
was
Whitened
within
,
with
sifting
of
Meal
the
Night
before
.
Both
which
Particulars
were
told
and
discovered
,
by
the
Confessants
,
before
the
Witnesses
which
now
concur
with
them
,
in
it
,
were
examined
.
2do
.
The
Second
part
of
the
Probation
consists
of
several
Adminicles
,
proven
by
unsuspected
Witnesses
,
which
lead
us
to
suspect
those
Pannals
to
be
Witches
,
as
so
many
Lines
drawn
from
a
Circumference
to
a
Center
,
and
as
an
Avenue
to
the
positive
Probation
thereafter
adduced
:
And
these
either
strick
at
the
whole
Pannals
in
general
,
or
some
of
them
in
particular
.
In
general
we
need
not
enumerat
all
these
Adminicles
,
but
remit
you
to
the
Probation
,
which
is
so
full
thereanent
;
only
you
will
be
pleased
to
notice
,
that
it
is
clearly
proven
,
that
all
the
Pannals
have
insensible
Marks
,
and
some
of
them
in
an
extraordinary
manner
:
That
most
of
them
have
been
long
Reputed
Witches
,
and
some
of
them
delated
in
1687.
by
a
Confessing
Witch
,
whose
subscribed
Confession
has
been
produced
.
You
see
that
none
of
them
do
shed
Tears
,
nor
were
they
ever
discovered
to
do
it
since
their
Imprisonment
,
notwithstanding
of
their
frequent
Howlings
:
So
that
it
is
not
a
sudden
Grief
or
Surprise
.
And
finally
,
that
the
Girle
fell
in
Fits
of
Torment
upon
the
Pannals
approaches
to
her
,
and
that
she
did
name
them
all
frequently
,
either
out
of
,
or
in
,
her
Fits
.
In
particular
,
you
see
how
Katharine
Campbell
was
provoked
by
this
Girl
's
discovering
her
Thift
;
whereupon
she
has
brought
in
the
rest
of
her
Confederets
to
act
the
following
Mischiefs
:
How
thereupon
Campbell
did
Curse
and
Imprecate
in
a
terrible
manner
:
How
she
stayed
out
of
her
Bed
at
Night
,
and
was
frequently
drousie
in
the
Morning
:
How
she
was
named
by
the
Girle
,
particularly
the
two
Nights
that
she
was
out
of
Prison
:
The
Ball
of
Hair
was
taken
out
of
her
Pocket
and
burnt
;
whereupon
the
Girle
's
throwing
out
of
Hair
did
cease
:
She
could
not
express
one
word
,
even
when
on
her
Knees
,
of
Prayer
,
for
the
Girl
's
Recovery
:
And
the
insensible
Marks
on
her
,
were
very
remarkable
.
Agnas
Nasmith
did
not
torment
the
Girl
after
she
had
prayed
for
her
:
She
was
repute
a
Witch
,
and
hath
the
Marks
.
She
came
early
in
the
Morning
to
Bargarran's
Closs
,
when
by
her
refusing
to
go
in
,
it
appeared
she
had
no
business
.
Yea
,
it
is
plain
.
that
she
had
a
Resentment
,
for
her
not
getting
a
greater
Alm's
the
last
time
she
was
there
.
The
Girl
declared
ex
incotinenti
,
that
Nasmith
asked
her
Health
and
Age
;
which
in
these
Circumstances
was
a
shrewd
Presumption
of
her
evil
Design
:
And
she
acknowledged
herself
to
have
done
this
,
when
she
asked
the
Age
of
another
Child
;
wherein
by
Providence
the
was
befooled
,
since
that
which
she
thought
would
have
been
an
Excuse
,
tended
to
discover
her
Gurlt
.
And
lastly
,
after
this
appearance
of
Agnes
Nasmith
,
the
Girl
did
take
her
first
Fit
,
and
nominat
her
amongst
the
first
Tormenters
.
Margaret
Laing
,
that
great
Imposter
,
has
been
a
Master-peice
of
the
Devil
:
She
has
confessed
unnatural
Lust
,
which
is
known
to
some
of
your
number
:
She
sat
near
the
Door
where
the
Charm
of
Hair
was
found
which
the
Girle
declared
did
keep
up
her
Tongue
;
and
upon
burning
thereof
it
was
loused
.
The
Girle
fell
in
Fits
upon
her
approach
:
She
has
notable
Markes
;
particularly
one
which
the
Confessants
declare
she
lately
received
;
and
by
Inspection
it
appears
to
be
Rec●●t
When
she
came
from
her
private
conversation
(
no
doubt
with
the
De●●l
.
)
she
Raged
as
if
she
had
been
possest
,
and
could
not
but
declare
,
That
she
expected
a
violent
Death
:
She
looked
in
the
face
of
James
Millar's
Child
,
and
asked
her
Age
,
whereupon
that
Child
sickned
the
same
Night
,
and
named
Margaret
Laing
on
her
Death-bed
:
It
appears
she
was
ready
to
show
to
Janet
Laird
a
sight
of
her
Mother
,
who
had
been
three
Years
Dead
.
And
finally
,
She
has
been
taken
in
several
Lyes
and
gross
Prevarications
;
particularly
you
may
remember
,
how
six
hours
ago
;
when
the
Witnesses
were
examined
on
the
Ball
of
Hair
found
with
Katharin
Campbell
,
a
Gentleman
(
Mr.
Stewart
of
〈…〉
)
heard
her
say
to
Katharin
in
the
Ear
;
This
is
well
waird
on
you
because
ye
would
not
put
it
away
when
I
desired
you
&c.
Which
the
said
Mr.
Stewart
did
openly
testifie
in
Court
upon
Oath
;
notwithstanding
whereof
this
impudent
Wretch
had
the
confidence
to
deny
it
,
the
Katharin
Campbel
also
Confest
,
That
she
had
pulled
at
her
,
and
had
spoke
some
what
to
her
,
to
which
she
did
not
advert
.
This
was
no
wonder
,
the
Witnesses
deponing
at
the
time
being
closs
against
Katharin
.
Margaret
Fulton
was
repute
a
Witch
,
has
the
Mark
of
it
;
and
acknowledged
in
presence
of
her
Husband
,
that
she
made
use
of
a
Charm
;
which
appeared
full
of
small
Stones
and
Blood
.
That
her
Husband
had
brought
her
back
from
the
Faries
;
and
her
Repute
of
being
a
Witch
is
of
an
old
date
;
besides
her
being
named
often
by
the
maleficiat
Girl
.
As
to
the
Lindsays
they
all
have
the
Mark
:
And
were
all
of
a
long
time
reputed
to
be
Witches
.
John
Lindsay
in
Barloch
was
accidentally
discovered
by
the
Girles
taking
a
Fit
upon
his
coming
to
the
House
.
John
and
James
Lindsays
;
were
dilated
by
a
confessing
Witch
in
Anno
1687
,
Which
Confession
is
publickly
read
before
you
:
And
there
was
Money
given
to
the
Sheriff-depute
for
delaying
of
the
pursute
.
James
Lindsay
appeared
to
William
Semple
suddendenly
,
and
Flew
about
like
a
Fowl
,
for
an
opportunity
to
strick
him
,
in
revenge
of
the
quarrel
mentioned
in
the
Deposition
,
and
at
last
prevailed
to
strick
him
dead
over
a
Dyke
.
And
finally
which
is
a
remarkable
Indication
both
of
Truth
and
Providence
,
the
very
Witnesses
adduced
in
the
Exculpation
for
the
Lindsays
,
deponed
so
clearly
against
them
,
even
beyond
the
Pursuets
Witnesses
,
that
their
Advocate
was
stunned
thereat
;
and
thereupon
desisted
from
●●aving
any
moe
Witnesses
to
be
examined
on
the
Exculpation
,
It
is
true
,
some
of
these
Indications
may
be
in
One
,
and
others
of
them
in
A●●ther
,
ei●●er
from
Nature
or
Accident
;
and
yet
that
person
not
be
a
Witch
:
But
it
was
never
heard
or
read
,
that
all
these
indications
,
which
are
so
many
discoverys
by
Frovidence
,
of
a
crime
that
might
other
ways
remain
in
the
dark
,
did
ever
concur
in
one
and
the
same
Indi●●●●●●
Person
that
was
innocent
:
Yea
on
the
contrary
,
they
,
by
the
▪
Wisdom
and
Experience
of
all
Nations
,
do
als
convincingly
discover
a
Witch
,
as
the
Symptoms
of
a
●eptosis
confirmed
by
all
Physicians
,
do
unfold
the
Person
affected
with
the
same
to
be
Leprous
.
〈◊〉
Esto
,
They
are
not
sufficient
of
themselves
,
yet
their
Tendency
and
Moanning
,
being
cleared
and
applyed
to
their
proper
cause
,
by
a
liquid
and
positive
Probation
:
There
wants
no
more
to
determine
you
anent
the
Pannals
guilt
.
And
therefore
,
3tio
.
As
to
the
Third
part
of
the
Probation
,
were
〈◊〉
the
Positive
Depositions
of
the
Confessants
,
and
against
whom
they
do
concurr
,
wholly
to
your
own
Perusal
and
Examination
:
Only
you
would
be
pleased
to
notice
.
●m●
.
Some
things
which
very
much
Sustain
the
Credibility
of
their
Testimonies
,
arrising
from
their
examination
in
Court.
2do
.
We
shall
explain
to
you
the
import
of
the
word
N●t●
,
which
is
added
to
the
Interlocutor
of
the
Judges
admitting
these
last
Witnesses
.
As
to
the
First
,
Elizabeth
Anderson
is
of
sufficient
Age
;
being
Seventeen
;
yet
so
young
and
pointed
,
that
her
Deposition
appears
no
effect
of
Melancholly
;
She
accused
her
Father
to
his
face
when
he
was
a
dying
in
the
prison
,
as
now
there
are
two
of
her
Aunts
in
the
Pannal
,
which
certainly
must
proceed
from
the
strength
of
Truth
,
since
even
Dives
retain
〈◊〉
natural
affection
to
his
relations
.
She
went
on
foot
to
the
Meetings
with
her
Father
,
except
only
that
the
Devil
transported
them
over
the
Water
of
Clyde
,
which
was
easy
to
the
Prince
of
the
Air
who
does
far
greàter
things
by
his
Hurri-canes
;
she
tells
that
Montgomeries
House
was
,
Meallis
when
his
Child
was
strangled
:
And
she
declares
that
she
never
renounced
her
Baptism
;
but
was
carried
along
by
the
Concussion
of
a
Parent
:
So
that
nothing
can
be
objected
against
her
testimony
in
any
Judgement
,
much
less
in
an
Excepted
Crime
,
James
Lindsay
it
is
true
,
is
of
less
import
:
yet
by
his
Weeping
when
he
came
in
and
was
admonished
of
the
greatness
of
his
guilt
,
it
appears
that
he
had
an
Sense
of
it
:
he
hath
a
natural
Precipitancy
in
what
he
speakes
,
yet
that
is
commonly
the
concomitant
of
Ingenuity
,
as
importing
his
Expressions
not
to
before-thought
.
He
Concurrs
in
most
things
with
the
others
,
and
yet
he
has
declared
,
that
he
saw
Not
Margaret
Fulton
at
Dumbartoun
.
&c.
Which
implys
that
he
does
not
file
the
Pannals
all
at
Randome
,
but
tells
what
occurred
to
his
Senses
.
&c.
Janet
and
Margaret
Rodgers
are
instances
of
a
singular
providence
,
for
they
did
confess
the
same
Morning
that
the
Court
did
last
sit
,
of
their
own
proper
motive
,
there
being
neither
Ministers
nor
Judges
beside
them
at
the
time
.
Agn●s
Nasmith
is
Janets
Relation
,
and
she
tells
that
she
never
saw
Katharine
Campbel
,
as
Margaret
declares
that
she
did
not
see
John
Lindsay
in
Bartech
:
which
plainly
demonstrats
that
they
tell
only
the
dictats
of
their
Natural
Conscience
arrising
from
discretion
and
knowledge
of
the
true
matters
of
Fact
:
They
both
professed
their
Repentance
last
Sabbath
in
the
Church
:
And
do
persist
with
a
great
Firmness
,
as
you
see
their
Department
in
deponing
to
be
Congruous
and
Exact
.
Thomas
Lindsay
and
Christian
Shaw
,
being
under
Pupillarity
,
we
did
not
press
their
being
put
to
an
Oath
;
yet
you
saw
that
they
did
declare
in
Court
against
these
P●●nals
in
such
an
Harmony
with
the
rest
of
the
Deponents
,
and
gave
such
an
cause
of
their
knowledge
.
That
it
is
certain
their
own
youngness
in
years
Adds
,
extreamly
to
the
Credit
of
their
Testimony
:
Because
thereby
it
is
incredible
,
that
they
could
have
contrived
or
executed
the
acting
of
concert
.
As
to
the
Second
,
Since
these
Witnesses
are
admitted
by
the
Judges
;
it
necessarly
implyes
,
that
they
meant
them
to
be
probative
;
only
they
adjected
the
words
Cum
nota
:
That
is
,
you
must
notice
,
or
Notandu●
est
,
That
there
must
something
else
concurr
to
prove
the
Guilt
of
the
Pannals
,
by
and
attour
the
Depositions
of
any
two
such
Witnesses
:
But
so
it
is
,
that
all
the
Adminicles
on
which
you
have
seen
Probation
led
,
for
more
then
Sixteen
Hours
of
your
time
,
are
strenghtening
evidences
,
of
those
Witnesses
Credebility
,
and
cannot
but
have
been
Notticed
by
you
as
Illative
of
the
same
things
which
they
depone
.
Whereby
the
Nota
is
fully
taken
off
by
the
concurrence
of
four
other
positive
Testimonys
,
agreeing
with
that
of
two
of
these
Witnesses
:
by
the
Extraordinaryness
of
the
corpora
delicti
:
by
the
Probability
of
the
Adminicles
:
And
finally
by
the
whole
Chain
of
this
Affair
,
and
the
Sparkles
of
an
Infernal
Fire
,
which
in
every
place
have
broke
out
of
it
.
It
is
true
there
are
some
few
of
the
Adminicles
that
are
proven
only
by
one
Witness
.
But
,
as
to
this
,
you
may
consider
,
1mo
.
That
a
Witness
deponing
do
facto
proprio
,
is
in
Law
more
credited
than
any
other
single
Witness
.
And
this
is
the
present
Case
as
to
some
of
the
Adminicles
.
2do
.
The
Antecedent
,
Concomitant
,
and
Subsequent
,
circumstances
of
Fact
,
do
sustain
the
Testimony
and
make
the
Semi-plenary
Probation
to
become
full
▪
But
3tio
.
The
other
Adminicles
undoubtedly
proven
by
concurring
Witnesses
,
are
perse
,
sufficient
:
And
therefore
you
saw
us
,
at
the
desire
of
the
Judges
,
forbeare
to
call
the
far
greatest
part
of
our
Witnesses
;
because
the
time
had
alreadyr●●
to
so
great
a
length
,
and
it
was
thought
that
there
was
already
enough
proven
of
presumptions
:
For
it
may
als
reasonably
be
imagined
,
that
the
most
Regular
and
Curious
Scheme
had
emerged
from
the
fortuitous
concourse
of
Atoms
roving
without
Rule
,
as
that
so
many
indications
should
Concenter
against
each
of
these
Pannalls
,
&
yet
they
remain
Innocent
of
Witchcraft
.
Now
upon
the
whole
,
you
will
take
notice
,
that
Presumptions
being
vehement
make
a
more
certain
Probation
then
Witnesses
:
Because
Presumptions
are
Natural
Emanations
of
the
thing
it self
,
which
cannot
be
brybed
.
Whereas
Witnesses
are
obnoxious
:
So
in
our
Law
there
was
one
condemned
for
Thift
,
on
other
for
falshood
,
and
a
third
for
Murdering
of
a
Child
,
meerly
upon
Presumptions
,
as
is
related
by
McKeinzie
in
his
Criminal
Treatise
:
much
more
may
presumptions
astruct
the
faith
of
,
and
take
off
the
Nota
from
,
positive
Witnesses
:
For
it
is
a
gross
mistake
,
that
several
proofs
,
which
have
each
of
them
some
Import
,
may
not
be
joyned
to
make
a
full
Evidence
,
the
same
way
as
two
small
Candles
in
a
Dark
room
,
will
not
suffice
;
yet
several
others
being
added
to
them
,
will
make
a
sufficient
light
,
to
discover
the
murderrer
:
Two
Boys
will
be
able
to
carry
a
Weight
which
one
of
them
would
〈◊〉
be
able
to
sustain
;
as
two
units
make
a
full
number
:
One
Witness
of
whatsoever
dignity
proves
nothing
;
yet
out
of
the
Mouth
of
two
or
three
Witnesses
every
Truth
shall
be
established
.
And
finally
,
Tho
one
Coal
make
nor
a
Fire
that
can
do
the
work
;
yet
several
Coals
added
to
it
encrease
the
Flame
;
which
is
hoped
will
be
sufficient
for
the
operation
.
We
shall
therefore
leave
you
with
this
Conclusion
,
That
as
you
ought
to
beware
to
condemn
the
innocent
,
and
ought
to
incline
to
the
safest
fide
:
so
if
these
Pannals
be
proven
legally
guilty
;
Then
quoad
bygones
,
your
Eye
ought
not
to
spare
them
,
nor
ought
you
to
suffer
a
Witch
to
Live
:
And
,
as
to
the
future
;
you
in
doing
otherways
would
be
Accessory
to
all
the
Blasphemies
,
Apostacys
.
Murders
,
Tortures
,
and
Seductions
,
&c.
Whereof
these
Enemies
of
Heaven
and
Earth
,
shall
hereafter
be
guilty
,
when
they
have
got
out
.
So
than
the
question
seems
simply
to
come
to
this
whether
upon
your
Oath
de
fideli
,
you
can
swear
,
That
the
Pannals
,
notwithstanding
of
all
that
is
proven
against
them
,
are
not
guilty
of
Witchcraft
?
In
the
Determination
whereof
we
pray
GOD
may
direct
you
to
the
right
course
.
The
Inquest
being
inclosed
near
six
Hours
,
brought
in
their
Verdict
to
Court
,
that
they
found
the
Libel
proven
.
I
am
&c.
LETTER
SECOND
.
SIR
.
I
Have
Collected
,
according
to
my
Promise
,
what
appeared
to
me
most
Specious
in
the
Reasonings
,
either
in
Court
,
or
private
Conversation
,
anent
the
receiving
of
the
Confessants
as
Witnesses
.
You
are
not
to
imagine
,
that
the
Pannals
were
Condemned
on
the
Faith
of
these
:
For
I
do
believe
the
Probation
by
unexceptionable
witnesses
,
led
antecedent
to
this
last
,
was
so
pregnant
,
that
the
Pannals
might
have
been
Condemned
on
it
,
tho'
these
last
had
not
been
adduced
.
I
may
have
missed
the
Energy
of
the
Argument
sometimes
,
in
a
Case
which
in
it self
is
so
abstruse
:
However
,
you
have
it
in
such
manner
as
I
was
able
to
penetrat
thereunto
;
as
follows
.
IN
order
to
the
more
satisfactory
Answering
of
the
Objections
made
against
these
last
Witnesses
,
we
shall
first
,
lay
before
you
the
State
of
the
Case
:
And
,
then
,
clear
up
the
Determination
of
it
.
As
to
the
First
.
The
Question
is
not
,
whether
Partners
in
the
Crime
,
or
others
mentioned
in
the
Objections
,
can
be
a
Concluding
Proof
of
themselves
,
tho'
two
of
them
would
concur
as
to
the
same
Act
of
Witchcraft
:
But
whether
the
Corpora
delicti
appearing
already
to
imply
Witchcraft
,
and
the
extrinsick
Adminicles
being
so
pregnant
,
to
infer
that
these
Pannals
are
the
Witches
:
there
concurring
such
Characters
,
as
by
observance
of
all
Nations
and
Ages
,
are
the
Symptoms
of
a
Witch
;
particularly
the
Marks
,
Fame
,
not
shedding
of
Tears
,
&c.
which
are
Discoveries
of
Providence
of
so
dark
a
Crime
,
that
like
Avenues
lead
us
to
the
Secret
of
it
.
And
finally
,
when
six
persons
of
different
Ages
and
Stations
,
five
Confessants
,
and
the
Girl
,
do
,
when
separatly
examined
,
agree
in
their
Answers
to
every
material
Question
that
is
put
to
them
,
even
tho'
it
be
New
;
so
that
it
could
not
be
concerted
:
We
say
,
whether
or
not
in
such
a
Case
may
Witnesses
be
received
to
put
the
Cape-stone
on
the
Evidence
by
a
positive
probation
,
of
a
Matter
of
Fact
which
is
the
Object
of
Sense
,
tho'
otherways
they
be
liable
to
exception
,
if
such
Extraordinariness
of
the
Corpora
delicti
,
Clearness
of
the
Adminicles
,
and
of
the
Diagnosticks
of
Witches
;
did
not
preceed
them
;
as
you
have
seen
proven
before
you
that
they
do
?
The
Case
is
not
,
whether
these
Witnesses
would
be
Habile
in
an
Ordinarie
Crime
,
which
commonly
falls
to
be
exposed
to
other
Witnesses
,
then
those
concerned
in
it
:
But
whether
they
can
be
received
in
this
Extraordinary
,
Occult
,
and
Excepted
Crime
of
Witchcraft
;
wherein
there
are
two
special
Cases
to
be
noticed
;
viz.
Sometimes
the
Acts
thereof
are
open
,
and
admitt
the
choise
of
Witnesses
;
such
as
Charmes
used
in
the
Day-time
,
when
the
Actor
is
visible
.
But
that
part
of
Witchcraft
;
whereby
Witches
meet
in
the
Night-time
,
Adore
their
Lord
,
contrive
their
Malefices
,
and
accordingly
thereafter
execute
them
,
when
other
Witnesses
are
asleep
,
or
the
Witches
themselves
are
covered
from
sight
:
We
say
,
that
this
can
be
no
otherways
proven
than
by
these
that
are
Intimat
to
it
,
joyned
to
the
positive
Proof
and
Adminicles
before-mentioned
.
We
do
not
alledge
,
that
Persons
altogether
destitute
of
Knowledge
and
Natural
Conscience
are
to
be
admitted
in
any
Case
,
such
as
Infants
,
Furious
,
Fatuous
,
&c.
Neither
do
we
contend
.
That
Thomas
Lindsay
and
Cliristian
Shaw
,
who
are
under
Pupillarity
,
should
be
put
to
an
Oath
;
for
they
are
only
to
be
examined
separatly
before
the
Court
,
upon
interrogators
,
by
which
it
may
appear
,
whether
or
not
they
coincide
with
the
four
other
Confessants
,
that
are
to
depone
before
them
;
and
this
is
the
Pannal's
Advantage
in
case
of
Disagreement
:
But
we
insist
,
that
any
Person
above
Pupillarity
;
giving
Evidences
of
considerable
Knowledge
and
natural
Conscience
(
which
is
a
sufficient
Fond
for
all
the
Credit
that
we
need
in
this
Case
,
that
is
already
almost
fully
proven
)
is
to
be
received
as
a
Witness
.
As
to
the
2d
.
we
shall
make
this
as
clear
as
Noon
.
1mo
.
From
Reason
and
the
Nature
of
the
thing
.
2do
.
The
unanimous
Judgment
of
Lawiers
in
all
Nations
and
Ages
.
3tio
.
Our
own
Customs
and
Decisions
.
And
4to
.
The
Singularity
of
this
Circumstantiat
Case
.
As
to
the
First
.
The
going
to
,
and
coming
from
Meetings
,
especially
on
Foot
;
the
falling
down
,
and
worshiping
the
Devil
there
,
under
a
Corporeal
shape
(
which
he
had
when
he
tempted
our
SAVIOUR
to
doit
)
The
actual
Murdering
of
Children
by
a
Cord
and
Napkin
;
and
the
Tormenting
of
Others
by
Pins
,
&c.
Are
plain
Objects
of
Sense
:
And
therefore
the
Senses
are
to
be
beleived
anent
them
.
For
as
Reason
hath
Things
Intelligible
;
and
Faith
Things
Supernatural
;
so
the
Senses
have
Things
Corporeal
for
their
Object
,
whereanent
they
are
to
be
trusted
,
ay
and
while
it
be
Proven
,
that
the
Appearance
is
Impossible
,
or
that
the
Witness
of
it
,
is
an
Impostor
.
It
is
an
part
of
the
Witches
Purchase
from
the
Devil
,
that
they
cannot
be
seen
at
some
occasions
:
So
that
the
Abominations
comitted
then
would
remain
unpunished
,
if
such
Witnesses
were
not
admitted
.
It
cannot
be
thought
that
Witches
(
who
of
all
Criminals
are
the
most
obstinat
to
Confess
)
would
venture
the
loss
of
their
own
Lives
,
by
deponing
against
Others
,
against
whom
they
have
no
special
picque
;
yea
,
for
whom
they
have
particular
Affection
,
as
several
of
the
Pannalls
are
some
of
the
Witnesses
Relations
.
Nor
has
the
Devil
any
peculiar
interest
to
Instigat
them
thereunto
:
For
severals
of
the
Pannalls
have
confessed
other
execrable
Crymes
:
Whereby
it
cannot
be
supposed
,
That
Satan
would
be
divided
against
himself
.
GOD
in
his
ordinary
Providence
has
taken
such
care
of
publick
Judgments
,
that
the
Enemy
of
Justice
his
special
Power
ceases
thereabout
,
as
appears
by
the
Witches
not
being
able
either
to
do
more
Harm
,
or
escape
,
after
GOD's
Ministers
begin
to
counteract
Satan's
Instruments
by
Imprisonment
.
And
finally
,
the
oddness
of
the
Malefices
,
the
Concurrence
of
the
Adminicles
;
and
the
existence
of
Matters
of
Fact
,
wherein
these
Confessants
(
tho'
not
knowing
the
same
otherways
)
do
agree
with
other
unexceptionable
Witnesses
,
&c.
Do
sufficiently
astruct
their
Credibility
:
For
as
Falshood
being
a
Crime
,
is
never
presumed
;
so
a
person
found
true
in
many
things
,
is
still
presumed
to
continue
such
,
till
the
contrary
be
evinced
.
As
to
the
second
,
Socius
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N.
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habitu
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N
,
21.
In
a
word
all
Lawiers
who
wrot
particular
Treatises
on
Witchcraft
in
Germany
,
Italie
,
Loven
,
France
,
and
Spain
,
&c.
Do
conclude
,
that
inhabile
Witnesses
;
and
particularly
Socii
are
to
be
admitted
in
Witchcraft
;
only
the
strictest
of
them
do
think
,
that
this
Admission
is
to
be
c●m
nota
;
or
as
Delrio
in
the
place
cited
for
the
Pannals
expresses
it
ex
his
solis
,
the
Judge
is
not
to
Condemn
,
nor
do
we
require
it
.
As
to
the
Third
.
we
have
the
Testimonie
of
our
Famous
K.
Ja
:
6th
.
Demon
:
lib.
3.
C.
ult.
telling
us
,
That
it
is
our
Law
,
that
Boys
,
Girls
,
infamous
Persons
,
&c.
Are
not
to
be
rejected
any
more
in
Witchcraft
,
than
in
human
lese
Majesty
,
even
tho'
they
assert
others
to
have
been
present
at
Imaginary
Meetings
:
Because
this
Supposes
their
having
entred
into
a
Pre-contract
:
He
sayes
that
Satan's
Mark
,
and
the
want
of
Tears
,
are
pregnant
Aids
to
the
Discovery
,
Quod
Dens
prater
natura
ordinem
voluit
esse
secret
a
imanitatis
judicium
,
&
●o
non
permittenes
ut
fecissimi
criminis
pertinatiam
dissimulent
.
He
gives
an
instance
of
a
Girle
,
who
having
named
several
Witches
in
her
Fitts
;
they
were
all
Condemned
upon
other
concurring
Adminicles
.
This
is
not
a
common
Author
,
but
a
Man
who
as
Curious
,
was
Exact
:
As
Prudent
did
not
publish
such
things
without
the
Approbation
of
the
best
Divines
and
Lawiers
;
as
a
Prince
,
is
to
be
Credited
anent
the
Law
of
His
own
Countrey
;
and
as
a
King
has
determined
any
Dubiety
that
might
have
remained
in
this
Point
,
also
farr
as
the
Law
of
our
Government
will
permitt
.
But
further
our
Judges
and
Lawiers
have
followed
His
Majesty
:
For
in
all
the
Processes
in
the
Journals
;
Fame
,
and
Delation
,
and
the
Mack
,
are
still
sustained
,
as
most
pregnant
Presumptions
;
whereupon
,
and
a
very
small
Probation
besides
,
Witches
have
been
frequently
Condemned
.
So
in
the
Processes
against
the
Bewitchers
of
Sir
George
Maxwel
of
Pollock
,
and
Hamilton
of
Barns
,
Anno
,
1677.
Socius
criminis
,
tho'
under
Age
,
is
sustained
to
be
a
Witness
:
And
witnesses
are
adduced
before
the
Inquest
for
proving
,
that
the
Mark
was
found
upon
some
of
the
Witches
.
Women
and
Minors
have
been
received
by
multitudes
of
Decisions
cited
by
McKen●ie
.
Tit.
prob
:
by
Witn●sses
,
and
Tit:
Witchcraft
.
And
he
also
cites
Decisions
,
where
,
in
paralel
Cases
,
Socii
Criminis
and
others
inhabile
,
were
admitted
;
particularly
in
Treason
and
in
Falshood
:
And
all
Lawiers
conclude
,
That
witchcraft
is
as
much
an
excepted
crime
as
these
.
As
to
the
4th
.
What
ever
inhability
these
witnesses
might
be
under
,
it
is
fully
made
up
,
and
they
rendred
unexceptionably
Habile
by
the
Chain
of
this
whole
Business
It
is
true
one
Man
throw
the
concurrence
of
corrosive
Humors
,
may
have
an
insensible
Mark
;
another
be
enviously
defamed
:
A
Third
may
through
sudden
Grief
or
Melancholy
,
not
be
able
to
weep
,
&c.
A
Fourth
may
be
loaded
with
suspitious
Circumstances
,
when
extraordinary
things
fall
out
in
the
Countrey
:
And
a
Fifth
may
be
deponed
against
by
two
false
witnesses
,
tho'
neither
of
these
separatly
be
truely
witches
.
But
by
the
known
Observation
and
Experience
of
Mankind
,
none
except
witches
have
had
the
unhappie
Medley
and
Concurse
of
All
or
Most
of
these
Indicia
,
and
ordinarly
,
and
for
the
greater
part
,
Witches
have
them
:
So
that
since
the
Rules
of
Judgment
are
established
upon
that
,
Quod
plerumque
fit
,
which
does
obtain
till
an
exception
be
apparent
in
a
special
case
,
the
Conjunction
of
these
in
one
person
,
does
as
plainly
give
his
Character
,
as
the
most
certain
symptoms
of
the
plainest
Disease
,
being
universally
concerted
in
all
parts
of
the
World
,
points
out
to
us
that
the
Haver
of
them
is
a
person
truely
affected
with
that
Desease
,
whereof
he
hath
the
concurrent
Diagnosticks
.
In
a
word
,
one
or
other
of
these
may
concurr
,
in
the
Innocent
;
but
no
Writers
do
Attest
,
that
all
of
them
have
concentred
in
any
other
person
in
the
World
but
a
witch
:
And
on
the
other
hand
,
they
taking
place
in
Witches
,
through
all
parts
of
the
World
,
must
proceed
from
a
common
,
and
not
from
a
peculiar
Humor
or
Cause
.
The
specifick
Aptitude
;
of
some
of
the
nicest
of
the
Indicia
,
which
appeared
from
the
Probation
already
led
,
to
discover
a
Witch
,
do
serve
to
clear
the
ground
of
the
Worldes
Observation
anent
them
.
Particularly
the
Devil
,
as
Aping
GOD
,
imprints
a
Sacrament
of
his
Covenant
:
Be●●des
that
,
commonly
this
mark
being
given
at
the
first
Meeting
,
does
by
its
intolerable
Pain
,
force
the
Witch
to
a
second
Randevouz
for
curing
it
,
at
which
the
poor
wretch
being
under
this
furious
necessity
,
fixes
the
Paction
by
renewing
it
with
●eliberation
,
having
been
diverted
in
the
mean
time
from
considering
the
Horridness
of
the
first
Engagement
by
the
Pain
.
The
inability
to
shed
Tears
may
be
a
Charactristick
of
Hardening
,
tho'
not
always
in
the
case
of
Christians
;
yet
in
these
who
have
ceased
to
be
such
;
left
the
Devil
giving
them
such
words
of
Scripture
and
Prayer
as
many
have
,
it
should
be
impossible
to
discover
their
Hypocrisy
;
and
that
is
not
Satan's
own
interest
,
since
by
this
Discovery
occasion
is
given
to
Buffo
on
the
Profession
of
Holyness
.
A
Report
often
arises
without
ground
,
but
a
Constant
Ropuce
that
keeps
footing
,
implyes
for
the
most
part
a
surer
Cause
;
especially
when
it
is
of
Persons
below
Envy
;
and
by
Persons
above
Calumny
.
The
Girls
falling
in
fitts
at
approach
of
the
Pannalls
might
proceed
from
Antipathie
,
arriseing
from
the
poisonous
Steems
of
the
witch
accustom'd
to
produce
that
Effect
through
a
vertue
affixed
thereto
by
the
Devil
,
by
Conjunction
of
natural
Causes
(
the
same
way
as
the
invisible
Pestilence
does
operat
)
or
his
promise
of
casting
the
Girl
in
Fitts
at
the
Witches
presence
,
might
have
been
General
;
where
by
the
Witch
was
eventually
befooled
and
discovered
,
as
it
often
falls
out
:
For
Satan
envies
even
their
temporal
Felicity
,
and
fears
lest
by
continuing
here
,
they
should
be
rest
out
of
his
hands
by
Conversion
.
When
they
come
to
perceive
the
Delusion
of
his
Promises
to
make
them
rich
and
the
like
,
&c.
There
was
one
thing
further
which
was
tried
before
your
Lordships
,
viz.
None
of
the
Pannals
that
were
tried
(
tho'
most
Saggacious
and
Knowing
,
and
perfect
in
Memory
,
so
that
it
could
not
proceed
from
Ignorance
or
Forgetfulfulness
)
could
make
out
the
attempt
of
saying
the
Lord's
Prayer
;
which
may
either
be
a
secret
Judgement
for
Renuncing
their
first
LORD
,
after
whom
it
is
peculiarly
Denominat
,
or
by
restraint
of
their
new
lord
,
who
may
think
that
too
special
an
Homage
to
his
Adversary
.
But
we
have
hindered
you
too
long
with
that
which
is
not
necessary
:
For
this
being
incontravertible
Law
and
Custom
,
there
needs
no
Philosophy
to
support
it
:
Since
Legislators
do
Reason
,
but
Subjects
must
Obey
:
And
both
the
Fool
and
the
Lazie
(
who
have
neither
Read
nor
Thought
enough
to
understand
this
Subject
)
are
to
be
left
to
their
own
Chimera's
:
Yet
lest
they
should
insult
,
we
shall
Answer
in
their
fashion
,
such
of
the
Objections
as
the
Pannals
Advocate
thought
any
ways
worthy
to
be
repeated
in
this
place
.
Whereas
it
is
objected
,
that
Delrio
Sect.
5.
§
4.
says
,
That
Socii
are
not
to
be
admitted
witnesses
ad
condemnandum
;
especially
considering
,
that
the
Probation
ought
to
be
luce
meridiana
clarior
.
It
is
answered
,
that
the
place
it self
confutes
this
Inference
in
the
present
Case
:
For
it
says
,
Ex
his
solis
non
est
procedendum
ad
condemnationem
,
scio
contrarium
communius
teneri
&
in
praxi
obtinere
,
&c.
So
that
it
is
evident
,
1mo
.
That
the
common
Opinion
and
Custom
is
in
the
contrary
,
even
when
there
is
no
other
probation
,
but
by
the
Partners
of
the
Crime
.
Yet
,
2do
.
we
are
not
so
straitned
but
subsume
in
his
very
words
,
ex
his
solis
we
do
not
desire
the
Pannals
should
be
Condemned
;
but
your
Lordships
see
these
Witnesses
we
are
to
adduce
are
not
soli
or
alone
;
for
the
Probation
led
these
last
Sixteen
Hours
,
are
so
many
Concomitants
and
Discoveries
of
Providence
,
which
astruct
and
make
up
any
defect
in
their
Credit
that
can
be
desiderat
.
Hence
,
3tio
.
The
Meaning
of
that
Maxim
(
which
is
Metaphorical
,
as
appears
by
the
words
,
Clarior
luce
meridiana
,
an
equal
Clearness
being
sufficient
)
is
fully
Answered
,
and
takes
place
in
the
present
Case
:
For
the
Extraordinariness
of
the
Corpora
delicti
,
Pregnancy
of
the
Adminicles
,
and
Pointedness
of
the
positive
Probation
,
being
conjoined
;
there
is
not
a
Clearer
Proof
upon
Record
in
any
Nation
,
than
that
to
which
,
it
's
hoped
,
these
will
amount
.
Whereas
this
Alledgance
is
enforced
,
by
pretending
it
were
of
dangerous
consequences
to
allow
such
witnesses
to
prove
meeting
with
the
Devil
,
since
Satan
might
have
represented
others
by
their
false
shapes
.
It
is
Answered
.
1mo
That
we
are
not
straitned
in
this
;
because
there
are
many
other
Articles
proven
,
which
could
not
have
been
falsified
.
But
if
we
give
some
scope
to
Reasoning
even
in
this
point
;
it
is
to
be
considered
,
that
the
Rules
of
Judgement
are
established
upon
that
which
for
the
most
part
does
still
obtain
;
and
Rules
are
to
be
followed
,
till
an
exception
be
proven
in
a
particular
circumstantiat
Case
.
But
so
it
is
,
by
the
Experience
and
Observation
of
the
wisest
Divines
,
Lawiers
,
Philosophers
,
Phisicians
,
States-men
,
Judges
and
Historians
,
at
Home
and
Abroad
(
that
are
too
wise
to
be
imposed
upon
,
and
too
Ingenuous
to
deceive
us
,
when
they
all
concurr
in
the
same
matter
of
fact
)
beside
the
Testimony
of
Witches
themselves
every
where
;
makes
the
Apparitions
of
Witches
to
be
commonly
and
mostly
reall
;
so
Delrio
tells
us
lib.
5.
§
16.
Illusio
rarissime
contingit
,
ita
Jaqerius
,
Comensis
,
Sprengirus
●ienffeldus
.
&c.
And
therefore
the
Testimony
of
the
Senses
is
always
to
be
credited
anent
them
,
ay
and
while
it
be
canvelled
.
For
single
or
few
instances
of
false
Representations
to
the
Senses
esteeming
them
to
be
true
,
or
a
possibility
of
Appearances
being
false
,
can
no
ways
invalid
at
the
Rule
established
upon
Experience
,
which
is
common
,
and
for
the
most
part
,
whereby
no
exception
is
to
be
presumed
till
it
be
proven
in
a
special
Case
;
since
a
Wonder
does
not
subvert
the
Proof
drawn
from
the
common
course
of
Nature
;
Logick
admits
not
to
argue
a
Particulari
,
or
from
possibility
to
Existence
;
Law
puts
the
burden
of
proving
Simulation
on
the
Affirmer
,
and
that
which
seldom
occurrs
,
is
not
considered
by
the
Legislators
.
For
illustrating
of
which
,
it
is
further
to
be
considered
,
that
for
the
most
part
and
ordinarly
,
the
Witches
are
personally
existent
in
the
places
where
they
appear
;
because
it
's
more
easy
for
the
Prince
of
the
Air
to
transport
them
in
his
Hurricanes
which
he
can
raise
,
as
is
plain
in
the
instance
of
Job
(
who
was
put
in
his
power
,
i.
e.
his
natural
Power
without
Delegation
)
forming
a
Fen●e
upon
their
Face
,
whereby
the
violence
of
the
Air
may
be
diverted
from
chocking
them
:
Than
to
form
the
curious
Miniatur
of
such
various
Transactions
on
their
Brain
:
The
difficulty
whereof
is
the
greater
,
that
all
their
Fantacies
are
not
disposed
at
all
times
the
same
way
;
and
they
have
not
the
Seeds
of
this
work
,
unless
they
had
once
acted
it
in
reality
.
It
is
both
the
greater
Cryme
and
Pleasure
to
act
in
Truth
;
which
therefore
the
Devil
&
Witches
do
rather
choise
(
unless
the
Place
be
farr
distant
,
or
the
Party
indisposed
,
)
and
this
de
facto
is
attested
●o
be
●o
,
by
the
Writers
and
Witches
in
all
Nations
and
Ages
,
as
said
is
.
2do
.
Notwithstanding
that
the
Rule
must
hold
,
till
an
Exception
of
Exculpation
be
evinced
,
qu●
ad
a
particular
Person
,
by
evidencing
that
the
reall
Appearance
was
in
that
special
Case
a
true
Mistake
:
yet
this
Exception
is
sufficient
for
safty
of
the
Misrepresented
;
since
the
same
providence
which
permitted
the
the
Affliction
,
will
order
the
Out-gate
and
Exculpation
;
either
by
the
Aeriall
Bodies
not
byding
the
toutch
,
or
some
other
distinction
,
as
Providence
commonly
allowes
the
Devil
to
personat
only
with
cloven
Feet
;
or
that
the
Apparition
was
solly
to
one
single
Witness
,
who
cannot
be
a
Proof
;
or
that
the
Innocent
can
prove
alibi
;
or
Finally
the
Notour
Charracter
of
a
Samuel
,
will
purge
and
dispel
the
Aspersions
of
Satan
,
contrived
of
purpose
to
discredit
the
Evidence
of
Sense
,
by
which
alone
his
Instruments
can
be
discovered
.
Especially
this
Charracter
being
joyned
to
the
other
Circumstances
of
the
providence
;
such
as
,
when
good
men
are
disguised
they
are
mostly
pussive
in
the
Scene
and
out
with
thereof
:
Whereas
Witches
are
personally
active
in
their
common
Life
by
such
Words
and
Deeds
as
(
in
conjunction
with
these
Appearances
)
conspire
to
make
us
know
and
distinguish
them
from
the
truely
Good
;
since
these
Witches
open
Profanity
,
Naughtiness
,
or
unvailed
Hippocrisy
,
being
cleared
by
Fame
,
sealed
by
the
mark
,
and
confirmed
by
the
other
discoveries
of
the
Adminicles
that
ly
proven
before
you
,
do
still
make
an
Land
mark
betwixt
the
Children
of
Darkness
and
Light
.
So
Delrio
lib.
5.
Sect.
16.
N.
5.
tells
of
Athanasius
and
St.
Germanus
,
against
whom
Probation
was
adduced
for
Sorcery
,
but
Providence
did
canvel
it
.
It
's
a
famous
instance
of
Susanna
,
represented
by
the
Elders
;
which
tho
not
in
the
Case
of
spectre
,
yet
agrees
in
the
Rationale
.
The
Representation
by
Pharo's
Magicians
had
Concomitants
,
by
which
they
were
discovered
and
confounded
.
But
lastly
,
suppose
that
GOD
in
the
deepths
of
His
Wisdom
(
to
Convince
the
Error
of
Nimious
self
Confidence
)
should
permitt
all
necessar
Probation
to
concurr
against
an
Innocent
;
yet
the
Judge
following
the
Faith
of
Proofs
established
by
Divine
and
Humane
Laws
,
is
altogether
Innoxious
:
Since
this
Case
being
very
Ra●e
,
the
Evill
is
less
than
the
establishing
a
Principle
,
by
which
most
of
all
these
Monsters
could
not
be
cut
off
.
Upon
the
whole
,
It
is
certain
,
That
as
tho'
oft
times
false
Witnesses
set
on
by
the
Devil
,
have
taken
away
an
harmless
Life
,
by
accusing
it
of
other
Crimes
;
yet
the
Testimony
of
Witnesses
must
still
be
credited
till
they
be
redargued
;
so
these
Appearances
of
Witches
with
the
other
Specialities
before
exprest
,
being
proven
,
ought
to
be
esteemed
Real
,
till
the
fallacy
be
established
.
Especially
seing
there
are
Examples
in
Ancient
and
Modern
History
of
Satan's
Representing
the
best
of
Men
,
as
committing
Murther
,
Ruggrie
,
&c.
In
effigie
;
so
Delri●
▪
lib.
5.
Sect.
16.
N.
5.
relats
,
That
St.
Silvanus
was
represented
by
the
Devil
,
as
committing
a
common
Capital
Crime
:
And
the
like
of
a
Monk
:
whereof
there
are
several
Modern
paralel
Instances
;
yet
this
cannot
enervat
the
Rule
and
Faith
of
publick
Judicaturs
,
founded
on
no
more
but
upon
the
sight
of
the
like
Appearances
;
and
any
Argument
against
the
Probation
in
Witchcraft
,
will
equally
hold
against
the
Probation
of
any
other
Crime
whatsomever
:
Wherefore
the
Rules
of
them
both
must
be
common
,
as
to
beleiving
the
Se●ses
fortified
,
ut
supra
;
till
their
Error
be
Individually
discovered
.
Finally
,
the
Certainty
is
no
ways
diminished
by
the
extraordinariness
of
the
Appearance
to
the
Senses
:
For
in
Law
and
Nature
Reality
and
not
Si●●lation
is
presumed
,
till
the
contrair
be
made
appear
by
proving
the
thing
not
possible
in
Nature
,
or
tho'
it
be
possible
,
that
it
is
actually
false
.
This
is
answer
enough
to
those
who
place
a
great
part
of
their
small
Wit
in
nonsensical
arguing
against
all
Divine
Authority
:
But
writers
further
illustrate
that
the
extraordinariness
of
a
Matter
of
Fact
,
does
not
exclude
it's
Reality's
being
the
Subject
of
the
Testimony
of
Witnesses
,
in
our
Saviours
Miracles
.
Transfiguration
,
Walking
on
the
Waters
,
standing
in
the
midst
of
the
Disciple●
while
the
Doors
were
shut
,
and
arguing
Assurance
by
Their
Senses
,
That
a
Spirit
had
not
Fl●sh
and
B●nes
,
tho'
indeed
the
surer
Word
of
prophesy
did
put
these
beyond
doubt
.
Nor
could
it
be
alledged
for
the
Pannals
(
tho
they
had
the
last
word
,
as
perhaps
they
have
not
,
in
Objections
against
Witnesses
,
since
therein
rei
fi●●t
actores
by
attacq●ing
the
Witnesses
presumed
Hability
)
That
it
's
not
conceiveable
,
how
the
Girl
or
Witnesses
could
see
what
the
bystanders
could
not
behold
:
Beside
the
impossibility
of
the
real
Bodies
entering
at
closs
Doors
and
Windows
,
or
not
intercepting
the
sight
of
what
is
at
its
back
.
For
to
this
it
would
be
answered
,
1mo
.
Proven
facts
must
not
be
denyed
,
tho'
Philosophers
have
not
yet
●●tainly
reached
the
Invisible
manner
of
their
Existtence
:
So
in
Nature
,
the
Load-stone
draws
the
Iron
,
the
Compass
turns
always
to
the
Poles
,
&c.
In
Scripture
the
Angels
(
and
the
Devil
was
once
such
,
retaining
as
yet
his
Natural
powers
)
smote
the
Sodomites
,
that
they
could
not
see
the
Door
;
tho
they
saw
the
House
.
Baldam's
Ass
perceived
the
Angel
that
stood
undiscovered
to
himself
;
and
the
Rod
thrown
down
by
the
Magicians
of
Aegipt
,
was
no
doubt
seen
by
themselves
,
tho
invisible
to
the
by-standers
Which
holding
of
their
Eyes
,
Interpreters
explain
to
have
been
done
by
natural
Means
;
and
yet
the
Manner
thereof
is
certainly
difficult
.
However
,
it
is
also
certain
,
that
if
a
possible
way
can
be
proposed
,
tho
Reality
of
a
proved
Fact
is
not
to
be
contradicted
:
Aod
this
can
be
done
in
the
the
present
Case
:
For
,
2do
.
Satan's
Natural
Knowledge
and
acquired
Experience
,
makes
him
perfect
in
the
Opticks
and
limning
:
Besides
that
,
as
a
Spirit
he
excels
in
Strength
and
Agility
;
whereby
he
may
●●sily
bewitch
the
Eyes
of
others
;
to
whom
he
intends
that
his
instruments
should
not
be
seen
in
this
manner
as
was
formerly
hinted
:
viz.
He
constricts
the
Pores
of
the
Witches
Vehicle
,
which
intercepts
apart
of
the
Rayes
reflecting
from
her
Body
;
he
condenses
the
interjacent
Air
with
grosser
Meteors
blown
into
it
,
or
other
ways
does
violently
agitate
it
which
drowns
another
part
of
the
Rayes
:
And
lastly
he
obstructs
the
optick
Nerves
with
●umors
stirred
toward
them
:
All
which
joined
together
may
easily
intercept
the
whole
Rayes
reflecting
from
these
Bodies
,
so
as
to
make
no
impression
upon
the
common
●ense
;
and
yet
at
the
same
time
,
by
refraction
of
the
Rayes
,
glydeing
alongst
the
fitted
sides
of
the
Volatile
Couch
,
wherein
Satan
transports
them
,
&
thereby
meeting
and
coming
to
the
●ye
,
as
if
there
were
nothing
interjacent
,
the
wall
or
chair
behind
the
same
Bodies
may
be
seen
;
as
a
peece
of
Money
lying
out
of
sight
in
a
Cup
becomes
visible
how
soon
the
medium
is
altered
by
pouring
in
some
w●●er
on
it
.
Severals
of
your
number
do
know
,
that
the
Girle
declared
,
that
she
saw
and
heard
the
Doors
and
Windows
open
at
the
Witches
en●ry
,
when
no
doubt
the
Devil
had
precoudensed
a
soft
stopage
on
the
Eyes
and
●ars
of
others
,
to
whom
that
was
unperceived
.
So
Ap●l●●●ic
escaped
Domitians
sight
;
and
Giges
became
invisible
by
his
Magical
Ring
.
John
of
Sarrisberrie
tells
us
of
a
Witch
,
that
could
make
any
thing
not
to
be
seen
:
and
Mejerus
relates
another
,
that
had
the
like
power
.
Some
Italian
Witches
of
greater
then
ordinary
wit
confessed
to
Grillandus
the
Devils
opening
Doors
and
Windows
for
them
,
tho
the
more
Ignorant
,
by
a
Fascination
,
think
themselves
,
Actors
of
this
,
Whence
it
ought
not
to
be
doubted
by
any
reasonable
Man
what
in
all
Times
and
Places
is
so
unconte●●ible
,
Fact
.
Finally
the
Pannals
could
not
insist
,
that
these
Confessants
are
to
depone
only
on
their
Imagination
,
which
can
prove
no
more
against
themselves
or
others
them
a
Dream
For
still
it
s
to
be
minded
,
that
there
are
other
Proofs
to
which
this
is
only
necessary
as
a
consonant
adminicle
.
But
further
Arg.
causa
It
is
answered
,
that
the
alledgeance
is
a
mistake
;
seeing
they
declare
plain
matters
of
fact
obvious
not
only
to
〈◊〉
but
several
of
their
Senses
:
viz.
Some
of
them
went
the
grea●est
part
of
the
way
to
these
meetings
on
foot
:
they
there
saw
and
touched
their
confede●ts
;
they
heard
their
Combinations
to
Destroy
and
Torture
the
Infants
,
Girle
and
Ministers
.
:
They
returned
on
foot
again
:
and
even
when
they
were
carried
fore
or
back
they
knew
on
the
next
day
that
it
was
no
Dream
,
the
same
way
as
all
other
Mortals
discover
the
difference
.
But
moreover
this
is
adminiculate
by
some
real
effects
of
a
personal
Presence
,
as
you
have
seen
in
the
probation
:
And
it
is
yet
further
cleared
by
the
journal
of
Barg●●●ens
daughters
Sufferings
;
which
was
arrested
before
the
former
Commissioners
,
and
is
nottour
in
the
Countrey
;
particularly
the
Glass
of
Sack
and
Orange
pile
;
the
peices
of
the
clouted
Sleeves
;
the
words
expressed
by
the
Keeper
on
the
sudden
Murder
of
the
Child
;
which
are
●onstantly
told
by
some
of
the
Confessants
;
as
also
the
Houses
being
Meallie
that
Night
.
The
Girle
tho
hood
winked
,
her
falling
in
Fits
at
their
approach
,
&c.
And
others
,
which
shall
be
pointed
at
to
the
Assyse
,
conjoyned
together
,
can
be
ascrived
to
no
other
cause
then
the
real
existence
of
the
Witches
persons
in
the
places
Vnless
it
be
said
,
that
Satan
might
possibly
.
have
foisted
and
suborned
all
these
;
and
thence
it
be
concluded
,
that
the
Devill
did
actually
so
,
in
which
case
the
Objectors
〈◊〉
the
Persons
that
bottom
their
Opinion
on
Imagination
without
a
〈◊〉
positive
ground
of
the
real●●
of
what
they
fancy
;
ye●
against
positive
grounds
of
belief
in
the
contrary
;
which
arguing
from
Possibility
to
Existen●e
it
already
suffi●●ently
exploded
.
Whereas
for
sustaining
the
Objection
it
is
likewise
alledged
,
That
the
●●●fessants
having
been
in
the
Devils
service
,
and
renounced
Christ
,
they
are
not
Capable
of
the
Religion
of
an
Oath
,
It
is
answered
,
1mo
,
In
the
rules
of
Charity
&c.
The
Confessants
tho
once
Witches
.
yet
now
they
,
at
least
the
Majority
of
them
have
ceased
to
be
such
,
having
had
the
use
of
means
by
the
Ministers
and
Word
,
and
actually
declared
their
Repentance
▪
and
the
Devils
ceasing
to
molest
them
;
particularly
Elizabeth
Anderson
was
only
carried
alongst
violently
by
her
Fa●●er
,
and
stood
out
to
the
last
against
her
renouncing
to
f●er
baptism
,
or
consenting
to
these
Crimes
which
were
contrived
in
their
meetings
.
Janet
and
Margaret
Rodgers
do
testifie
a
great
remorse
and
avowed
he
same
last
Sabbath
in
the
face
of
the
Congregation
.
So
those
three
are
sufficient
whatsoever
might
be
said
against
the
other
two
,
especially
if
we
join
the
improbability
either
of
hazarding
their
own
lives
or
the
Devils
sending
them
out
against
these
Fannals
,
or
their
destroying
their
own
relations
:
as
was
remarked
before
,
But.
2do
,
Whether
they
remain
Witches
or
not
;
It
is
certain
by
Reason
and
Experience
that
the
Devils
peculiar
influence
ceaseth
in
and
about
judgement
:
by
the
common
course
of
providence
:
And
therefore
the
Authors
before
cited
admit
Witches
whether
penitent
or
not
.
3tio
.
All
the
defects
of
their
hability
is
supplied
,
and
the
intireness
thereof
complea●ed
,
by
their
testimonies
being
so
wonderfully
adminiculat
;
particularly
the
confessants
are
constant
from
the
first
discovery
;
uniform
in
so
various
circumstances
not
only
with
themselves
,
but
with
the
Girles
They
declare
nothing
but
what
is
probable
,
most
of
the
Pannals
having
been
reputed
Witches
,
all
of
them
having
the
Mark
;
and
one
or
other
of
them
(
to
whom
the
associa●●
delight●●
vn
mischief
,
never
missed
to
join
)
having
had
particular
Irritations
to
take
reaenge
by
the
torture
and
deaths
libelled
;
Besides
the
other
adminicles
of
guilt
already
proven
before
you
.
The
confessants
were
threatened
to
retract
by
the
Pannals
themselves
and
their
Friends
:
besides
the
bad
usage
from
others
in
the
Countrey
.
They
concurr
with
the
maleficats
testimony
,
and
amongst
themselves
,
even
when
interroga●t
singly
;
and
upon
new
things
:
as
severals
of
your
number
have
tryed
the
experiment
;
on
this
head
Detrio
,
lib
5.
§
16.
N
,
5.
wisely
observes
,
quamvis
tam
facile
foret
demoni
pluresdecipere
quam
unum
tamen
non
est
censendus
Deus
hoc
aque
permittere
ne
●mnis
rati●
pr●bandi
talia
delicta
occulta
judicibu●
adimatur
;
hoc
enim
est
dissentanium
providintiae
divinae
.
The
Reiteration
of
the
Acts
which
they
declare
anent
some
persons
whom
they
never
saw
except
in
these
congresses
,
&
yet
whom
they
know
now
on
the
first
sight
,
is
unaccountable
if
they
were
falsarics
:
And
that
they
are
not
such
is
further
astructed
by
some
of
the
Pannals
being
delated
by
a
confessing
Witch
in
Anno
1687
,
And
you
know
that
others
delated
by
these
confessants
were
lately
brought
in
guilty
by
the
Verdict
of
a
former
Inquest
.
&c.
which
are
so
many
joint
proofs
of
these
witnesses
integrity
,
and
makes
an
chain
of
evidence
and
moral
demonstration
both
against
Error
in
themselves
and
delusion
in
relation
to
others
,
&c
,
There
were
some
things
objected
out
of
the
Law
of
Scotland
,
of
which
also
I
shall
give
you
some
touch
.
Whereas
it
was
alledged
,
That
irretiti
criminibus
capitalibus
,
and
so
under
the
Pursuers
power
,
cannot
be
admitted
to
be
Witnesses
;
Conform
to
a
stature
in
Regiam
Majesta●em
,
To
this
it
was
answered
,
That
we
need
not
say
,
that
these
statutes
have
not
the
force
of
Law
,
except
in
so
farr
as
they
are
received
by
Custom
;
unless
conform
thereto
.
A
Laik
cannot
Witness
against
a
Clerk
,
or
e
contra
,
&c.
Not
need
we
make
use
of
that
which
is
Obvious
,
Viz.
That
these
Statutes
are
only
common
Rules
in
ordinary
Crimes
;
which
have
their
Exception
in
all
Occult
and
excepted
Crimes
,
such
as
Witchcraft
,
&c.
Nam
omnis
regula
subverti
potest
,
and
particularly
this
Rule
is
actually
so
restricted
in
the
Case
of
Witchcraft
,
by
the
Opinion
of
Lawiers
and
Customes
before-mentioned
,
which
are
the
best
interpreters
of
Laws
:
For
if
this
Application
should
hold
,
socius
criminis
could
never
be
admitted
:
But
we
positively
deny
,
that
those
Confessants
are
under
o●●
Power
or
Influence
;
seing
Elizabeth
Anderson
is
not
Guilty
of
Witchcraft
,
for
any
thing
that
does
appear
:
The
Lindsays
were
never
indicted
for
it
;
and
the
Dyet
was
deserted
against
the
Rogers
;
as
the
whole
Commission
is
to
Expyre
against
the
first
of
June
,
betwixt
and
which
time
,
they
are
to
proceed
no
further
then
this
particular
tryal
.
So
that
this
Objection
evanishes
to
smoak
.
Whereas
it
is
pretended
,
That
the
Rogers
cannot
be
received
,
because
not
given
out
in
the
List
of
Witnesses
;
conform
to
the
Regulation
,
whereby
the
Pannals
might
have
proven
their
Objection
by
their
Exculpation
.
It
was
answered
,
1mo
.
This
Objection
ought
to
be
repelled
;
because
,
besides
that
the
Act
speaks
only
of
Criminal
Lybells
,
and
no●
indictments
,
which
with
the
List
of
the
Witnesses
may
be
given
in
farr
shorter
time
then
the
Additional
List
has
been
given
to
the
Pannals
,
being
Prisoners
:
This
Act
is
interpreted
by
the
common
Custom
of
the
Justice
Court
;
of
giving
additional
Lists
after
the
first
,
upon
shotter
time
then
this
has
been
given
.
As
is
particularly
attested
by
James
Guthry
Macer
,
who
has
given
them
,
and
who
being
a
Person
in
Officio
,
his
Testimony
is
to
be
Credited
in
what
relates
to
his
Office
:
so
that
the
old
Custom
confirmed
by
a
Decision
.
3.
August
1661
,
where
Alexander
Forrester
was
cited
apud
acta
against
a
Witch
,
continues
quoed
this
point
,
as
is
related
by
McKenzie
,
pag.
529.
But
2do
.
Any
Objection
that
the
Pannals
pretend
against
these
Witnesses
,
is
injure
,
or
may
instantly
appear
.
3tio
.
The
Case
is
altogether
extraordinary
and
Circumstantiat
:
For
these
Witnesses
had
not
Confessed
:
And
so
were
not
existent
under
that
Reduplication
when
the
principall
List
was
given
out
whereby
the
Act
of
Parliament
can
only
be
understood
of
Witnesses
,
that
w●●e
then
existent
.
And
finally
the
Pannals
got
a
general
warrand
of
Exculpation
for
citing
of
any
Witnesses
they
pleased
,
and
they
have
had
several
Days
since
they
got
this
additional
List
,
so
that
they
might
have
cited
Witnesses
to
prove
their
Objections
,
were
it
not
the
truth
is
;
they
have
none●
besides
these
that
are
common
and
before
Answered
.
Thus
I
have
given
you
hints
that
your
own
re●soning
(
which
I
know
to
be
refyn'd
)
may
improve
and
apply
,
so
as
to
dissolve
the
quibles
which
the
petry●●●●ts
,
who
have
not
Soul
enough
of
themselves
to
penetrate
into
the
true
light
of
what
is
recondite
;
may
raise
against
it
:
It
being
their
common
talent
ei●her
to
Sk●pp
over
the
Surface
of
Minas
,
or
,
otherways
,
to
tear
assunder
some
appurtenances
of
a
Scheme
,
and
then
presently
pronunce
it
Mortally
Maimed
I
must
confess
that
none
co●ld
be
more
scept
cal
a
●ent
the
Truth
of
such
od●
things
as
I
had
heard
;
nor
in●uisitive
for
canvassing
the
Reality
and
Explications
of
them
;
then
I
was
before
my
attendances
at
Bargarrans
house
,
and
the
reveral
dyers
of
Co●●t
;
and
in
〈◊〉
Cen
●orsation
with
some
or
these
concerned
therea●●●●
.
But
now
,
after
all
that
I
have
seen
,
reasoned
,
and
heard
,
I
do
acknowledge
my self
entirely
captivate
by
the
dictats
of
natural
under●●anding
and
common
sense
,
into
a
sound
mind
and
perswasion
,
that
,
as
there
●s
such
a
thing
as
Witchcraft
,
so
it
was
eminent
in
its
forementioned
Effects
;
and
the
seven
Pannals
were
some
of
the
Witches
.
I
have
tr●●bled
you
litle
with
my
proper
Observations
;
yet
lest
you
should
think
me
either
too
Lazie
or
Peevish
,
I
shall
make
one
,
and
it
is
,
that
I
do
not
think
the
greater
part
of
the
condemned
prisoners
will
ever
fully
Confess
:
Of
which
Conjecture
I
have
two
chief
grounds
,
Viz.
That
they
are
neither
Ignorant
nor
Melancholick
;
but
on
the
contrary
,
some
of
them
would
seem
to
have
been
once
enlightned
before
they
fell
away
,
so
that
if
this
be
a
Sin
unto
Death
,
there
is
no
appearance
that
they
will
glorify
GOD
by
acknowledgment
.
Severals
of
them
are
of
singular
Knowledge
and
Acutness
beyond
the
common
levell
of
their
Station
:
Particularly
Margaret
Lang
did
make
Harangues
in
her
own
defence
,
which
neither
Divine
nor
Lawier
could
re●sonably
Mend
:
Yet
I
thought
that
when
they
spoke
in
a
matter
of
any
concern
,
their
Eyes
stood
Squint
&
●ix●d
,
as
if
they
had
been
turning
their
Ears
and
attentive
to
a
Dictator
.
Their
answers
to
the
trying
Interrogators
put
to
them
,
were
Surprisingly
subtile
&
Cautious
.
Tho
indeed
,
by
the
industry
of
some
of
the
Judges
and
Lawiers
,
they
were
at
occasions
involved
in
Lyes
,
Prevarications
,
and
Contradictions
;
which
might
have
proceeded
either
from
Natural
or
preternatural
Causes
.
Some
of
them
were
esteemed
in
the
Country
very
Sagatio●●
and
Exact
in
their
Bussiness
:
Margaret
Lang
having
been
a
Mid-wise
,
and
one
of
the
Lindsays
having
acquired
a
considerabl●
Fortune
by
his
Tillage
and
Trade
:
Yet
it
was
noticed
,
that
there
did
commonly
break
out
of
their
covered
Course
,
something
Odd
either
of
Iniquity
or
Affectation
;
and
Lindsay
did
finely
enough
get
off
from
the
sherriff
when
he
was
formerly
accused
in
1687.
Melancholians
are
lovers
of
Solitude
;
Witches
of
Society
,
and
Feasts
:
Those
are
commonly
Pale
and
Heavy
;
many
of
these
Corpulont
and
Voluptuous
.
Witche●
are
Hard
to
Confess
as
knowing
their
Guilt
;
Melancholians
delight
to
discover
their
horridest
Dampts
,
because
they
think
them
no
Cryme
:
The
ones
Confessions
Every-where
are
Vniform
;
the
other's
Phantasms
are
as
various
as
their
Humors
.
Finally
,
Witches
teach
their
Trade
;
whereas
Conceits
would
Die
with
them
,
and
could
be
no
more
conveyed
then
the
Humor
which
is
the
Specifick
cau●e
thereof
.
As
these
distinguishing
Characters
do
hold
in
the
General
,
so
in
this
particular
Case
there
are
several
others
:
Such
as
,
most
of
the
Pannals
were
of
M●d●le-age
,
one
of
them
not
much
above
Twenty
;
and
the
first
Confessa●ts
are
known
to
be
Young
:
Whereby
Dottage
or
Melancholy
are
less
to
be
●uspected
;
yea
was
morally
●mposs●ble
in
many
of
the
Cases
.
For
the
Facts
which
the
Confessants
had
for●erly
declared
before
the
Commissioners
for
Enquiry
were
sworn
〈◊〉
other
unexceptionable
Witnesses
before
the
Commissioners
for
the
tryal
;
and
t●e
Circumsta●●es
were
such
,
that
the
one
c●uld
not
know
what
was
to
be
depo●ed
by
the
other
:
As
it
's
already
manifest
,
that
the
reall
Effects
in
several
passages
of
Bargarrans
Daughter
were
no●
possibly
producible
▪
by
any
imagination
or
Humor
;
and
〈…〉
spec●all
in
this
Case
,
that
neither
the
Pannals
nor
Coufessants
were
Distempered
by
being
keept
from
Sleep
▪
tortured
,
or
the
like
,
which
were
too
usua●●
in
●ormer
t●me●
;
out
all
the
Measures
were
strictly
observed
,
that
are
the
,
requ●●ts
o●
a
t●uely
imparti●l
Judgment
.
〈◊〉
n●●ded
not
●o
●ave
sent
unto
you
the
Doubles
of
the
Depositions
them●el●es
▪
Beca●●e
it
is
not
de●y'd
that
t●e
Deposi●ions
are
such
as
they
●re
represente●
〈◊〉
●he
Pleadings
;
the
chief
question
being
a●ent
the
Hability
of
the
last
Depo●●●●s
.
Neither
was
you
to
expect
the
Defenders
part
of
the
Debate
,
separatly
by
itself
,
in
respect
that
what
was
dispers●d
here
and
there
for
th●m
is
faithfully
rep●●●ed
or
implyed
in
what
yo●
have
:
As
to
those
poi●ts
which
I
thought
worth
the
Notti●●
.
Upon
the
whole
I
do
believe
;
that
there
is
scarcely
a
more
rare
providence
of
this
nature
in
any
true
History
;
a
more
exact
caution
in
any
enquiry
or
Trial
of
this
kind
:
A
●ore
clear
probation
,
without
confession
of
the
Pannals
them●elves
,
or
,
a
more
just
sentence
,
putting
together
all
circumstances
,
upon
record
.
I
am
,
what
you
have
made
me
,
Yours
,
&c.