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A00710	Newes from Scotland, declaring the damnable life and death of Doctor Fian a notable sorcerer, who was burned at Edenbrough in Ianuary last. 1591. Which doctor was regester to the diuell that sundry times preached at North Barrick Kirke, to a number of notorious witches. With the true examination of the saide doctor and witches, as they vttered them in the presence of the Scottish king. Discouering how they pretended to bewitch and drowne his Maiestie in the sea comming from Denmarke, with such other wonderfull matters as the like hath not been heard of at any time. Published according to the Scottish coppie.	Carmichael, James, 1542 or 3-1628, attributed name.	1592 (1592)	STC 10841A; ESTC S120634	8,957	24

in the night hee opened and fled awaie to the Salt pans where hee was alwayes resident and first apprehended Of whose sodaine departure when the Kings maiestie had intelligence hee presently commanded diligent inquirie to bee made for his apprehension and for the better effecting thereof hee sent publike proclamations into all partes of his lande to the same effect By meanes of whose hot and harde pursuite he was agayn taken and brought to prison and then being called before the kings highnes hee was reexamined as well touching his departure as also touching all that had before happened But this Doctor notwithstanding that his owne confession appeareth remaining in recorde vnder his owne hande writing and the same therevnto fixed in the presence of the Kings maiestie and sundrie of his Councell yet did hee vtterly denie the same Wherevpon the kinges maiestie perceiuing his stubbourne wilfulnesse conceiued and imagined that in the time of his absence hee had entered into newe conference and league with the deuill his master and that hee had beene agayne newly marked for the which hee was narrowly searched but it coulde not in anie wise bee founde yet for more tryall of him to make him confesse hee was commaunded to haue a most strannge torment which was done in this manner following His nailes vpon all his fingers were riuen and pulled off with an instrument called in Scottish a Turkas which in England wee call a payre of pincers and vnder euerie nayle there was thrust in two needles ouer euen vp to the heads At all which tormentes notwithstanding the Doctor neuer shronke anie whit neither woulde he then confesse it the sooner for all the tortures inflicted vpon him Then was hee with all conuenient speed by commandement conuaied againe to the torment of the bootes wherein hee continued a long time and did abide so many blowes in them that his leg●es were crushte and beaten togeather as small as might bee and the bones and flesh so brused that the bloud and marrowe spouted forth in great abundance whereby they were made vnseruiceable for euer And notwithstanding al these grieuous paines and cruell torments hee would not confess● anie thing so deepely had the deuill entered into his heart that hee vtterly denied all that which he had before auouched and wou●de saie nothing therevnto but this that what hee had done and sayde before was onely done and sayde for feare of paynes which he had endured Upon great consideration therefore taken by the Kings maiestie and his Councell as well for the due e●ecution of iustice vppon such detestable malefactors as also for example sake to remayne a terrour to all others heereafter that shall attempt to deale in the lyke wicked and vngodlye actions as witchcraft sorcery cuniuration such lyke the sayde Doctor Fian was soone after araigned condemned and adiudged by the law to die and then to bee burned according to the lawe of that lande prouided in that behalfe Wherevpon hee was put into a carte and beeing first strangled hee was immediatly put into a great fire being readie prouided for that purpose and there burned in the Castle hill of Edenbrough on asaterdaie in the ende of Ianuarie last past 1591. The rest of the witches which are not yet executed remayne in prison till farther traill and knowledge of his maiesties pleasure This strange discourse before recited may perhaps giue some occasion of doubt to such as shall happen to reade the same and thereby coniecture that the Kings maiestie would not hazarde himselfe in the presence of such notorious witches least therby might haue insued great danger to his person and the generall state of the land which thing in truth might wel haue bene feared But to answer generally to such let this suffice that first it is well knowen that the King is the child seruant of God and they but seruants to the deuil hee is the Lords annointed and they but vesselles of Gods wrath he is a true Christian and trusteth in God they worse than Infidels for they onely trust in the deuill who daily serue them till he haue brought them to vtter destruction But heereby it seemeth that his Highnesse caried a magnanimious and vndanted mind not feared with their inchantmentes but resolute in this that so long as God is with him hee feareth not who is against him And trulie the whole scope of this treatise dooth so plainely laie open the wonderfull prouidence of the Almightie that if he had not bene defended by his omnipotencie and power his Highnes had neuer returned aliue in his voiage frō Denmarke so that there is no doubt but God woulde as well defend him on the land as on the sea where they pretended their damnable practise FINIS

Newes from Scotland Declaring the Damnable life and death of Doctor Fian a notable Sorcerer who was burned at Edenbrough in Ianuary last 1591. Which Doctor was regester to the Diuell that sundry times preached at North Barrick Kirke to a number of notorious Witches With the true examinations of the saide Doctor and Witches as they vttered them in the presence of the Scottish King Discouering how they pretended to bewitch and drowne his Maiestie in the Sea comming from Denmarke with such other wonderfull matters as the like hath not been heard of at any time Published according to the Scottish Coppie AT LONDON Printed for William Wright To the Reader THE MANIFOLDE vntruthes which is spread abroade concerning the detestable actions and apprehension of those Witches wherof this Historye following truely entreateth hath caused me to publish the same in print and the rather for that sundrie written Copies are lately dispersed therof cōtaining that the said witches were first discouered by meanes of a poore Pedler trauailing to the towne of Trenent and that by a wonderfull manner he was in a moment conuayed at midnight from Scotland to Burdeux in Fraunce beeing places of no small distance between into a Marchants Seller there after being sent from Burdeux into Scotland by certaine Scottish Marchants to the Kinges Maiestie that he discouered those Witches and was the cause of their apprehension with a number of matters miralous and incredible All which in truthe ar● moste false Neuertheles to satisfie a number of honest mindes who are desirous to be enformed of the veritie and trueth of their confessions which for certaintie is more stranger then the common reporte runneth and yet with more trueth I haue vndertaken to publish this short Treatise which declareth the the true discourse of all that hath hapned aswell what was pretended by those wicked and detestable Witches against the Kinges Maiestie as also by what meanes they wrought the same All which examinations gentle Reader I haue heere truelye published as they were taken and vttered in the presence of the Kings Maiestie praying thee to accept it for veritie the same beeing so true as cannot be reproued A true discourse Of the apprehension of sundrye Witches lately taken in Scotland wherof some are executed and some are yet imprisoned With a particuler recitall of their examinations taken in the presence of the Kinges Maiestie GOd by his omnipotent power hath at al times and daily doth take such care and is so vigillant for the weale and preseruation of his owne that thereby he disapointeth the wicked practises and euil intents of all such as by any meanes whatsoeuer seeke indirectly to conspire any thing contrary to his holy will yea and by the same power he hath lately ouerthrown and hindered the intentions and wicked dealinges of a great number of vngodly creatures no better then Diuels who suffering themselues to be allured and inticed by the Diuell whom they serued and to whome they were priuatelye sworne entered into y e detestable Art of witchcraft which they studied and practised so long time that in the end they had seduced by their sorcery a number of other to be as bad as themselues dwelling in the boundes of Lowthian which is a principall shire or parte of Scotland where the Kings Maiestie vseth to make his cheefest residence or abode and to the end that their detestable wickednes which they priuilye had pretended against the Kings Maiestie the Common-weale of that Country with the Nobilitie and subiects of the same should come to light God of his vnspeakeable goodnes did reueale and lay it open in very strange sorte therby to make knowne vnto the worlde that their actions were contrarye to the lawe of God and the naturall affection which we ought generallye to beare one to another the manner of the reuealing wherof was as followeth Within the towne of Trenent in the Kingdome of Scotland there dwelleth one Dauid Seaton who being deputie Bailiffe in the saide Towne had a maide seruant called Geillis Duncane who vsed secretly to be absent and to lye foorth of her Maisters house euery other night this Geillis Duncane took in hand to help all such as were troubled or greeued with any kinde of sicknes or infirmitie and in short space did perfourme manye matters most miraculous which thinges forasmuch as she began to doe them vpon a sodaine hauing neuer doon the like before made her Maister and others to be in great admiracion and wondred thereat by meanes wherof the saide Dauid Seaton had his maide in some great suspition that she did not those things by naturall and lawfull wayes but rather supposed it to be doone by some extraordinary and vnlawfull meanes Whervpon her Maister began to growe very inquisitiue and examined her which way and by what meanes she were able to perfourme matters of so great importance whereat she gaue him no answere neuerthelesse her Maister to the intent that he might the better trye and finde out the trueth of the same did with the helpe of others torment her with the torture of the Pilliwinckes vpon her fingers which is a greeuous torture and binding or wrinching her head with a corde or roape which is a most cruell torment also yet would she not confesse any thing whereupon they suspecting that she had beene marked by the Diuell as commonly witches are made dilligent search about her and found the enemies marke to be in her fore crag or foreparte of her throate which being found she confessed that all her dooings was doone by the wicked allurements and inticements of the Diuell and that she did them by witchcraft The said Geillis Duncane also caused Ewphame Meealrean to be apprehended who conspired and perfourmed the death of her Godfather and who vsed her art vpon a gentleman being one of the Lords and Iustices of the Session for bearing good will to her Daughter she also caused to be apprehended one Barbara Naper for bewitching to death Archibalde last Earle of Angus who languished to death by withcraft and yet the same was not suspected but that he died of so strange a disease as the Phisition knew not how to cure or remedy the same but of all other the saide witches these two last before recited were reputed for as ciuill honest women as any that dwelled within the Citie of Edenbrough before they were apprehended Many other besides were taken dwelling in Lieth who are detayned in prison vntill his Maiesties further will and pleasure be knowne of whose wicked dooings you shall particularly heare which was as followeth This aforesaid Agnis Sampson which was the elder Witch was taken and brought to Haliriud house before the Kings Maiestie and sundry other of the nobility of Scotland where she was straitly examined but all the perswasions which the Kings maiestie vsed to her with y e rest of his counsell might not prouoke or induce her to confesse any thing but stood stiffely in the beniall of all that