[266] Fountainhall’s Decisions, i. 157.

[267] Fountainhall.

[268] This is the traditionary account, from Sharpe’s Notes to Kirkton’s History, p. 182.

[269] Fountainhall.

[270] Archæologia Scotica, i. 499.

[271] Historical Observes, p. 49.

[272] See Fountainhall’s Decisions, passim.

[273] Fountainhall’s Historical Observes, p. 62.

[274] The documents connected with this curious witch-trial are printed in the Scots Magazine for 1772, and again in the same work in 1814.

[275] Vide Fynes Moryson on Scottish travelling, sub anno 1598.