gainst infernal acts, and so escaped injury.

Certain witches--Annaple Thomson, Margaret Pringle, Margaret
Hamiltown, relict of James Pollwart, William Craw, Bessie Wicker, and
Margaret Hamilton, relict of Thomas Mitchell, sadly tormented
Borrowstounness and other parts of Linlithgowshire, in the seventeenth
century. Having entered into a paction with Satan, they did divers
acts of wickedness, for which they were tried before Commissioners of
Justiciary, specially appointed for the purpose by the Lords of His
Majesty's Council. The indictment charged that:

"Ye, and ilk ane of you, are indytted and accused,
that where, notwithstanding, be the law of God,
particularly sett down in the 20 chapter of Leviticus,
and eighteen chap. of Dewtronomie, and be the lawes
and actes of parliament of this kingdome, and constant
practiq thereof; particularlie be 73 act, 9
parliament, Q. Marie, the cryme of witchcraft is
declared to be ane horreid, abominable, and capitall
cryme, punishable with the paines of death and
confiscatiown of moveables; never the less it is of
veritie, that you have committed, and ar gwyltie of
the said cryme of witchcraft, in swa far ye have
entered in pactiown with the devill, the enemie of
your salvatiown, and have renownced your baptizme, and
have given your selffes, both soulles and bodies, to
the devill, and have bein severall meetings with the
devill, and wyth swndrie witches in diverse places:
and particularlie, ye the said Annaple Thomsone had a
metting with the devill the tyme of your weidowhood,
before yow was married to your last husband, in your
cwming betwixt Linlithgow and Borrowstownes, where the
devill, in the lykness of ane black man, told yow that
yow wis ane poore puddled bodie, and had ane evill
lyiff, and difficultie to win throw the world; and
promesed, iff ye wald followe him, and go alongst with
him, yow should never want, but have ane better lyiff:
and, abowt fyve wekes therefter, the devill appeired
to yow when yow wis goeing to the coal-hill abowt
sevin o'clock in the morning. Having renewed his
former tentatiown, yow did condeschend thereto, and
declared yowrselff content to follow him, and becwm
his servant: and ye, and each persone of yow, wis at
several mettings with the devill