Footnotes:
[1] Pitcairn’s ‘Scottish Criminal Trials.’
[2] Pitcairn’s ‘Scottish Criminal Trials.’
[3] Pitcairn.
[4] Pitcairn.
[5] Pitcairn.
[6] Pitcairn.
[7] An iron instrument so constructed, that by means of a hoop which passed over the head, a piece of iron having four prongs or points, was forcibly thrust into the mouth, two of these being directed to the tongue and palate, the others pointing outwards to each cheek. This infernal machine was secured by a padlock. At the back of the collar was fixed a ring, by which to attach to a staple in the wall of her cell.—Pitcairn’s ‘Scottish Criminal Trials.’
[8] Fountainhall says that she was convict and burnt; but is this not a mistake? Pitcairn gives the actual trial, and King James’s angry letter against the contumacious assisa.