e import of
the word _Nota_, which is added to the interlocutor of
the judges admitting these last witnesses.

"First, Elizabeth Anderson is of sufficient age, being
seventeen; but so young and pointed, that her
deposition appears not affected by melancholy: she
accused her father to his face, when he was a-dying in
the prison, as now there are two of her aunts in the
panel, which certainly must proceed from the strength
of truth, since even Dives retained a natural
affection to his relations; she went on foot to the
meetings with her father, except only that the devil
transported them over the water Clyde; which was easy
to the prince of the air, who does far greater things
by his hurricanes....

"James Lindsay, it is true, is of less import; yet, by
his weeping when he came in, and was admonished of the
greatness of his guilt, it appears that he had a sense
of it.... He does not file the panels all at random,
but tells what occurred to his senses.

"Janet and Margaret Rodgers are instances of a
singular providence; for they did confess, the same
morning that the court did last sit, of their own
proper motive, their being neither ministers nor
judges beside them at the time....

"It is true, there are some few of the adminicles that
are proven only by one witness; but as to this you may
consider, 1st, That a witness deponing _de facto
proprio_, is in law more credited than any other
single witness. And this is the present case as to
some of the adminicles. 2dly, The antecedent
concomitant, and subsequent circumstances of fact, do
sustain the testimony and make the _semi-plenary_
probation to become full. But 3dly, The other
adminicles, undoubtedly proven by concurring
witnesses, are _per se_ sufficient; and therefore you
saw us, at the desire of the judges, forbear to call
the far greatest part of our witnesses....

"We shall therefore leave you with this conclusion,
that as you ought to beware of condemning the
innocent, and ought to incline to the safest side; so,
if these panels be proven legally guilty, then _quoad_
bygones, your eye ought not to spare them, nor ought
you to suffer a witch to live; and as to the future,
you in doing otherwise w