[609] R. Scot, Bk. III, p. 44.

[610] Holinshed, Ireland, p. 58.

[611] Philobiblon Society, viii, Chelmsford Witches, pp. 29, 30.

[612] Id. ib., viii, p. 34.

[613] Examination of John Walsh.

[614] Remigius, pt. i, p. 54.

[615] Spalding Club Misc., i, p. 120; Burton, i, p. 252.

[616] Pitcairn, ii, pp. 542-3.

[617] From an unpublished trial in the Justiciary Court at Edinburgh. The meaning of the word laif is not clear. The Oxford dictionary gives lop-eared, the Scotch dictionary gives loaf. By analogy with the other accounts one would expect here a word meaning a hen.

[618] Highland Papers, iii, p. 18.