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A58441	A relation of the diabolical practices of above twenty wizards and witches of the sheriffdom of Renfrew in the kingdom of Scotland, contain'd in their tryalls, examinations, and confessions, and for which several of them have been executed this present year, 1697	T. P.; Renfrewshire. Commissioners for Inquiring into the Witchcraft in the Sheriffdom.	1697 (1697)	Wing R823; ESTC R3963	14,254	25

A RELATION OF THE DIABOLICAL PRACTICES Of above Twenty WIZARDS and WITCHES Of the Sheriffdom of Renfrew in the Kingdom of Scotland CONTAIN'D In their Tryalls Examinations and Confessions And for which several of them have been Executed this Present Year 1697. LONDON Printed for Hugh Newman at the Grashopper in the Poultry To Sir T. M. SIR ACcording to your Request I send you Inclos'd the Proceedings of the Commissioners appointed by the Lords of His Majestys most Honourable Privy Councill for enquiring into the Witches and Witchcrafts in the Shiriffdome of Renfrew of which I have had Opportunity of knowing more than many others as having been with the Commissioners on the Tryalls And shall add nothing here save what passed at the first Dyet of the Tryall which was at Paislaw where were Met of the Commissioners my Lord Blantyre my Lord Halcraig Sir Iohn Maxwell of Polock Mr. Francis Montgomery Blackhall Duchall with several others to the Number of Eleven There was Deputed in the room of the King's Advocate Three Advocates viz. Mr. John Menzies Mr. Grant and Mr. Stuart The Panalls being 21 in number were frequently call'd to see if they could be brought to Confession They were Confronted with Bargarens Daughter and the three little Confessors Elizabeth Anderson and the two Lindsays But they still deny'd all which put the Court to Cull out 7 of them against whom Threatnings and some Malifice following could be proven These were Margaret Lang in Cartinpan a Woman Famous for Religion ever since the 60 year of God and really a Person of extraordinary Gravity and Wisdom I know not whether to call it Natural or Diabolical but I have never heard a Woman speak so Gravely Pertinently and Religiously both to the Ministers and Judges then she did The other were Katharine Campbell Agnes Nasmith John and James Lindsays Agnes Fostur and Margaret Fulton This Kate Cambell is a young Well-favour'd Lass 20 years of Age but the rest most part Old both Men and Women The Commissioners after their first Assay to have them confess before they brought them to a Formal Tryal would have them Try'd by Pricking which really to me seems strange for there was not any of them save Margaret Fulton but Marks were found on them which were altogether Incensible That a Needle of 3 Inches length was frequently put in without their Knowledge nor would any blood come from these places and tho many especially Doctors ridicul'd these as Storys yet after we cal'd Dr. Bisbin and Baird and let them see a Needle of a great length put into the top of one of the Vertibrae of the Back and one into Margaret Lang a handbreadth beneath her Ribbs in the Region of the Lower Belly they both thought it wonderful being in a place where in another Woman the Needle could not but peirce the Gutts All the other 14 were also prickt and marks found in most of them But I was most concern'd for Martha Semple Daughter to Margaret Lang who was most exactly search'd twice yet no mark found tho the pricker mist not to search the very Soles of her Feet and other more Secret Places for when there was any difficulty to find the mark they did quite uncloath them but then it was in a Room and not publickly before one or two of the Justices a Minister one of the Advocatrs and the Clark my Lord Halcraig and I were only present with Martha but realy she is as well Favourd and Gentile a Lass as you 'l look on and about 17 or 18 years of Age I took up Mr. Wylie to her to see if he could bring her to any Confession he spoke long to her but she deny'd all notwithstanding of what you see in the Encloased paper but she was the only person amongst them all that ever I saw Weep They were at last on the 15 th of April to have been brought to their Tryall after 3 or 4 days triflling with them by pricking and to bring some of them to Confession but just as the Assize was constitute they mov'd to have a little more time to provide themselves Advocates which the Justices yeilded to and adjourn'd to the 2 d. Tuesday of May and in this Interval the two Brothers did Confess and upon Examination said the same things that the two Lindsays and Anderson had declared as you have it in the within Paper Another Man also confes'd But the Devil Strangled him in Prison for he was found fitting in a Chair with a Cord about his Neck but slack and ty'd to no thing After the Adjournment the Judges met again and having Sufficient Evidence of several Mallefices done by each of the Seaven above-named with the Testimonys of the five Confessing Witches all concuring in the same Acts Sentenc'd them to be burn'd the 10 th of June which was accordingly Executed The other 14 being Respited till the Kings Advocates Pleasure among whom is one Morison Wife to Francis Duncan in Greenock call'd in the paper the Devils Gentlewife Antiochia on whom many marks are found of which you 'l receive further Information by the Incloas'd to which I referr you and am Sir Your much oblig'd Humble Servant T. P. A NARATIVE Of the RECOGNITION Taken by the Commissioners Appointed by the Lords of His Majesties Privy-Council for Enquiring into the Witchcrafts and Witches in the Shirrifdom of Renfrew with Relation to the Afflicted Case of Christian Shaw Daughter to the Laird of Bargarren At the Place of Bargarren Feb. 5. 1697. Present the Lord Blantyre c. THE said Christian Shaw being Confronted with one Iames Lindsay whom Elizabeth Anderson one of the Confessing Witches Under-written Declared Was one of the said Christians Troublers in her Fits Did upon Touching the said Iames take a very Violent Fit Leaping Starting and Staring with such a Stiffning of all her Joynts that it was hard for the Assistants to keep her from Falling and at last fell as quite Dead and Senseless for some time and after Recovery being Confronted with one Catherine Campbell who being once Servant to her Father for a Mis-representation of her to her Mistress Curst her and is the Aledg'd Instrument of all the said Christian her Trouble The said Katherine being by the said Commissioners Interrogate on several Points in the Hearing of the said Christian she Deny'd all and particularly her Accession to the said Christian her Trouble or the Rise thereof But the Child still Charging her Conjured her to tell the Commissioners Why she would never Pray That God would deliver her from that Ill and Restore her well again Katherine did not disown her Refusal but shifted about for frivolous Excuses which the Commissioners bearing home on her as a Great Argument of her Guilt and finding she could hardly evade the Force of it Katherine offers to run at the Child they being then at some distance from one another and the Child did all she could to shun her Touch. Katherine Complain'd saying Now I would