Procedure: commission for the trial of some witches
[Commission granted for trial of certain witches]

The which day the estates of parliament find unanimously the sin of witchcraft daily increases in this land, therefore they have given and granted full power and commission for trying and putting to execution certain persons guilty of the crime of witchcraft, according to their depositions subscribed by the ministers and elders within the parishes of North Berwick, Bo'ness, Queensferry and Haddington.

  1. NAS. PA2/25, f.122v. Back
  2. Title not in manuscript. In APS only. Back