irl declared did keep up her tongue; and upon
burning thereof, it was loosed. The girl fell in fits
upon her approach; she has notable marks; particularly
one, which the confessants declared she lately
received; and, by inspection, it appears to be recent.
When she came from her private conversation (no doubt
with the devil) she raged as if she had been
possessed, and could not but declare that she expected
a violent death. She looked in the face of James
Millar's child, and asked her age, whereupon that
child sickened the same night, and named Margaret Lang
on her death-bed. It appears she was ready to show to
Janet Laird a sight of her mother, who had been three
years dead....

"Margaret Fulton was reputed a witch, has the mark of
it, and acknowledged, in presence of her husband, that
she made use of a charm, which appeared full of small
stones and blood; that her husband had brought her
back from the fairies....

"As to the Lindsays, they all have the mark, and were
all of a long time reputed to be witches. John
Lindsay, in Barlock, was accidentally discovered by
the girl's taking a fit upon his coming to the house.
John and James Lindsay were dilated by a confessing
witch in anno 1687, which confession is publicly read
before you, and there was money given to the
sheriff-depute for delaying of the pursuit. James
Lindsay appeared to William Semple suddenly, and flew
about like a fowl for an opportunity to strike him....

"It is true, some of these indications may be in one,
and others of them in another, either from nature or
accident, and yet that person not be a witch; but it
was never heard nor read that all these indications,
which are so many discoveries by providence, of a
crime that might otherwise remain in the dark, did
ever concur in one and the same individual person that
was innocent....

"As to the third part of the probation, we remit the
positive depositions of the confessants, and against
whom they do concur, wholly to your own perusal or
examination; only you would be pleased to notice, 1st,
Something which do very much sustain the credibility
of their testimonies, arising from their examination
in court. 2dly, We shall explain to you th