ul bride, and splendid train arrived in Leith.

The coronation ceremony, performed with great solemnity, was gone
through on the 17th of May at Holyrood House. After three sermons, the
queen's shoulders and part of her breast were uncovered, and the holy
oil poured thereon, subsequent to which the crown was put on her head.
On the Tuesday following the queen made her public entrance into
Edinburgh, where she was received with extraordinary marks of
rejoicing. At the city gate a municipal orator greeted her Majesty
with an address in Latin, and then from a gilded globe, resting over
the gate, a little fellow, representing an angel, descended and
delivered to the queen the keys of the city.

James was convinced that the storms which kept him and his queen so
long from meeting were the results of diabolical agencies. After his
return to Scotland, suspicion fell on a dangerous gang of witches and
warlocks at Tranent, and the king resolved to inquire into the whole
case, with the laudable design of getting rid of such wicked subjects
should he find them guilty. A man named David Seytoun, who held the
appointment of deputy bailiff of Tranent, had a young female servant
named Geillis Duncan, celebrated among the town's people for her skill
in curing diseases. Seytoun, becoming suspicious that she was in
league with Satan, questioned her closely without receiving
satisfactory answers. Not to be defeated, he first put her to the
torture, which he thought he had a right to do in virtue of his
office, and then searched her person for devil's marks. One of those
sure tokens of witchcraft being found on her throat, she was committed
to prison. There she made a full confession, in which many persons
were implicated. She admitted that the cures effected by her were
brought about by means of witchcraft.

Of those said to have been associated with this woman in her guilty
deeds, the most noted were Dr. John Fian, sometimes called John
Cunningham, and three women, named Agnes Sampsoun, Euphame
Mackalzeane, and Barbara Napier. Fian was a schoolmaster at Tranent, a
small town on the south side of the Firth of Forth, and about nine
miles east of Edinburgh. He admitted that he was an agent of the evil
one. One night, he said, the devil appeared to him, and induced him to
become his servant, under the promise that he would never want if he
served him faithfully and well. The offer being tempting, the
unscrupulous doctor became an instrumen