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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

come safelye from the Sea if his faith had not preuailed aboue their ententions Moreouer the said Witches being demaunded how the Diuell would vse them when he was in their company they confessed that when the Diuell did receiue them for his seruants and that they had vowed themselues vnto him then he would Carnallye vse them albeit to their little pleasure in respect of his colde nature and would doo the like at sundry other times As touching the aforesaide Doctor Fian alias Iohn Cunningham the examination of his actes since his apprehension declareth the great subtiltye of the diuell and therfore maketh thinges to appeere the more miraculous for being apprehended by the accusation of the saide Geillis Duncane aforesaide who confessed he was their Regester and that there was not one man suffered to come to the Diuels readinges but onlye he the saide Doctor was taken and imprisoned and vsed with the accustomed paine prouided for those offences inflicted vpon the rest as is aforesaide First by thrawing of his head with a roape wherat he would confesse nothing Secondly he was perswaded by faire means to confesse his follies but that would preuaile as little Lastly he was put to the most seuere and cruell paine in the world called the bootes who after he had receiued three strokes being enquired if he would confesse his damnable acts and wicked life his tung would not serue him to speak in respect wherof the rest of the witches willed to search his tung vnder which was found two pinnes thrust vp into the head whereupon the UUitches did laye Now is the Charme stinted and shewed that those charmed Pinnes were the cause he could not confesse any thing then was he immediatly released of the bootes brought before the King his confession was taken and his owne hand willingly set ther-vnto which contained as followeth First that at the generall meetinges of those witches hee was alwayes preasent that he was Clarke to all those that were in subiection to the Diuels seruice bearing the name of witches that alwaye he did take their othes for their true seruice to the Diuell and that he wrot for them such matters as the Diuell still pleased to commaund him Item the said Doctor did also confesse that he had vsed means sundry times to obtain his purpose and wicked intent of the same Gentlewoman and seeing himselfe disapointed of his intention he determined by all waies he might to obtaine the same trusting by coniuring witchcraft and Sorcery to obtaine it in this manner It happened this gentlewoman being vnmaried had a brother who went to schoole with the said Doctor and calling his Scholler to him demaunded if he did lye with his sister who answered he did by meanes wherof he thought to obtaine his purpose and therefore secretlye promised to teach him w tout stripes so he would obtain for him three haires of his sisters priuities at such time as he should spye best occasion for it which the youth promised faithfullye to perfourme and vowed speedily to put it in practise taking a peece of coniured paper of his maister to lappe them in when he had gotten them and there vpon the boye practised nightlye to obtaine his maisters purpose especially when his sister was a sleepe But God who knoweth the secrets of all harts and reuealeth all wicked and vngodlye practises would not suffer the intents of this diuilish Doctor to come to that purpose which he supposed it would and therefore to declare that he was heauilye offended with his wicked entent did so woorke by the Gentlewomans owne meanes that in the ende the same was discouered and brought to light for she being one night a sleepe and her brother in bed with her suddenlye cryed out to her mother declaring that her Brother would not suffer her to sleepe wherevpon her mother hauing a quick capacitie did vehemently suspect Doctor Fians entention by reason she was a witche of her selfe and therefore presently arose and was very inquisitiue of the boy to vnderstand his intent and the better to know y e same did beat him with sundry stripes wherby he discouered the trueth vnto her The Mother therefore being well practised in witchcrafte did thinke it most conuenient to meete with the Doctor in his owne Arte and therevpon tooke the paper from the boy wherein hee should haue put the same haires and went to a young Heyfer which neuer had borne Calfe nor gone to the Bull and with a paire of sheeres clipped off three haires from the vdder of the Cow and wrapt them in the same paper which she againe deliuered to the boy then willing him to giue the same to his saide Maister which he immediatly did The Schoolemaister so soone as he had receiued them thinking them indeede to bee the Maides haires went straight and wrought his arte vpon them But the Doctor had no sooner doone his intent to them but presentlye the Hayfer or Cow whose haires they were indeed came vnto the doore of the Church wherein the Schoolemaister was into the which the Hayfer went and made towards the Schoolemaister leaping and dauncing vpon him and following him foorth of the church and to what place so euer he went to the great admiration of all townes men of Saltpans and many other who did beholde the same After that the depositions and examinations of the sayd doctor Fian Alias Cuningham was taken as alreadie is declared with his owne hand willingly set therevnto hee was by the master of the prison committed to ward and appointed to a chamber by himselfe where forsaking his wicked wayes acknowledging his most vngodly lyfe shewing that he had too much folowed the allurements and entisements of sathan and fondly pra●tised his conclusions by coniuring witchcraft inchantment sorcerie and such like hee renounced the deuill and all his wicked workes vowed to leade the life of a Christian and seemed newly conuerted towards God The morrow after vpon conference had with him he granted that the deuill had appeared vnto him in the night before appareled all in blacke with a white wand in his hande and t●at the deuill demaunded of him if hee would continue his faithfull seruice according to his first oath and promise made to that effect Whome as hee then sayd he vtterly renounced to his face and ●ayde vnto him in this manner Auoide Satan auoide for I haue listned too much vnto thee and by the same thou hast vndone mee in respect whereof I vtterly forsake thee To whome the deuill answered That once ere thou die thou shalt bee mine And with that as he sayde the deuill brake the white wande and immediatly vanished foorth of his sight Thus all the daie this Doctor Fian continued verie solitarie and seemed to haue care of his owne soule and would call vppon God shewing himselfe penitent for his wicked life neuerthelesse the same night hee founde such meanes that hee stole the key of the prison doore and chamber in the which he was which