Poser 311 – Circuit Court Minute Books, 1677
In this poser, taken from Circuit Court Minute Books of the High Court of Justiciary, and dating to 1677 (Crown copyright, National Records of Scotland, JC10/4 page 12), we asked when and where did the witches meet.
Answer: the witches met at about 12 o'clock on the night of the 4th of January at John Stewart's house.
Transcription
your socerie and witchcraft And yet ye and the saids
witches abyding in your hynous crueltie and malice
ye and the fors[ai]ds witches did meit with the divill
about twelve aclock at night the fourth of January last
in the house of John Stewart your brother a warlock
and ther did contryve and make a new effigies of clay
in which the divill ye and the other witches did putt
three pins on in each syd and on in the breast efter the
making and framing of which effigies the s[ai]d Sir George
did relapse unto his former sicknes and hade stronger &
more violent paines & torments then at any tyme befor...
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