126. Potts, B 4.
127. Wonderful Discovery of Margaret and Phillip Flower, p. 117.
128. Sinclair, p. 160.
129. Kinloch, p. 144.
130. Law, p. 27 note.
131. Cotton Mather, p. 159.
132. Rehearsall both straung and true, par. 24.
133. Calendar of State Papers. Domestic, 1584, p. 220.
134. Stearne, p. 45.
135. Gerish, The Divel's Delusions, p. 11.
136. Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, pp. 161-4.
137. Id., ii, pp. 26-7.
138. Hibbert, p. 578.
139. Sinclair, p. 48.
140. From the record in the Justiciary Office, Edinburgh.
141. Chambers, iii, p. 299.
142. Ravaisson, 1679, pp. 334-6.
143. Mather, pp. 120, 125; J. Hutchinson, History, ii, pp. 37 seq.
144. Boguet, p. 125.
145. Lawes against Witches and Conivration, p. 7.
146. Wilson, ii, p. 158.
147. The trials are published by Pitcairn, i, pt. ii.
148. There were present on this occasion thirty-nine persons, or three Covens. See chap. vii on the Organization.
149. Bannatyne Club, Melville, Memoirs, p. 395. The sycophantic Melville adds; 'And certanly he is a man of God, and dois na wrang wittingly, bot is inclynit to all godlynes, justice and virtu; therfore God hes preserued him in the midis of many dangers.'
150. Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., No. 565, Feb. 7, 1550/1.
151. Newes from Scotland. Quoted in Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, pp. 213-23.
152. It is perhaps significant that the confession of John Fian, and the trials of both Barbara Napier and of Bothwell himself for witchcraft, have disappeared from the Justiciary Records.
153. Burton, v, p. 283.
154. Sandys, p. 250.
155. De Lancre, Tableau, pp. 176, 177.
156. Quibell, pl. xxviii. The palette itself is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
157. Remigius, pt. i, p. 38.
158. Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, p. 246. Spelling modernized.
159. Melville, p. 395.
160. Boguet, p. 56.
161. De Lancre, Tableau, pp. 68, 73, 126.
162. De Lancre, Tableau, pp. 225, 398.
163. Id., L'Incredulité, pp. 799-801.
164. Stearne, p. 13.
165. Id., p. 22.
166. Glanvil, pt. ii, p. 164.
167. Petto, p. 18.
168. Glanvil, pt. ii, pp. 294-5.
169. Cannaert, p. 54.
170. Melville, Memoirs, p. 395.
171. Boguet, pp. 53-4.
172. De Lancre, Tableau, p. 148.
173. Howell, iv, 842.
174. More, pp. 196-7.
175. Kinloch, pp. 115, 129, 132.