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connyer the in Gode''s name; and that he deponed that he 

 used to ryd the horses (betwixt tuo or three Lordes lands) 

 that hes the fercie, and being asked, who learned him, he 

 answered, that his mother told him, that or ever cloathes cam 

 upon him, and or ever he gott meat, he did ryd upone ane 

 hors." 



May 1, 1649. " Anent Harrie Fall, Gipsie, his wyff and 

 sister, they are ordeanit to mak repentance for and publick 

 renunciation of that vagabond kynd of lyff, in Makerstoun, 

 where they have taken house, and also in Roxborrow to mak 

 ther repentance for particular faltes they ar ther guilty of, yet 

 they are not to be admitted to the communion till they haiv 

 given proof of the truth and sincerity of their professione." 



August 14, 1649. Thomas Randall remitted to the ses- 

 sion of Makerston for charming with two stones, which he 

 applies " with some charmlike words." 



Oct. 30, 1649. Tibbie Thomson in Morbattle confesses 

 ^' charming and metting of the belt." 



January 8, 1650. A letter from Mr William Turnbull 

 [Makerston] ^^ desyres some of our number to attend the 

 judgeing and burning some witches within his parishe, Wed- 

 nesday and Thursday, in his necessitate absence." 



April 12, 1659. A woman in Roxburgh complains of a 

 neighbour " who saide that she had taken away her kines 

 milks, and after that she had come to the said complainer's 

 doore, and sought it again for God's sake, it was founde as 

 before, quhilk the party complained on compeiring confessed, 

 who being inquyred how she knew to require it so againe, 

 if any did teach her so, at last she declared that ther was 

 another woman who told her that she had about ten years 

 before done so to the same woman for some butter taken 

 away also from her, and by that means she fand it again." 



August 7, 1660. George Tait in Ednem complains that 

 William Law in Ednem Mains, and Mark Aicheson his 

 servant, consulted a woman in Berwick *' for the spearing 

 out of some stolen cornes," and that William Law declared 

 that the said George Tait his wife stole away the corn. 



Sep. 25, 1660. William Law says that at Berwick his 

 brother's wife turned the key to find out the truth about the 

 corns. He did not see it turned, but she made Mark Aiche- 

 son name over so many men and women in Ednem. 



Nov. 6, 1660. "' Michell Usher, or Wishart, at Sprous- 

 toun, and Mausie Ker, his wife, complean of John Brown, 

 weaver ther, for calling him a warwoof, and her a witch." 



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