Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563 - 1736

Goodare, Julian; Yeoman, Louise; Martin, Lauren; Miller, Joyce

Case Details

C/EGD/349 Mareone Guild

name of accused: Mareone Guild
designated title: no information
Accused Reference: A/EGD/338
Case date start: 27/4/1659
Given case date: no information
Case commission: no information
case complaint: no information
case correspondence: no information
case chronicle: no information
other details: no information

characterisation

demonic (secondary characteristic)
Implicated by another (secondary characteristic)
not enough information (secondary characteristic)
not enough information (primary characteristic)

Characterisation Notes: She was delated by Elspeth Fouller.

additional persons
name	involvement	notes
John Kincaid	Investigator
Andrew Majoribank	Investigator
Robert Rodgers	Investigator
James Cowan	Investigator
James Scott	Investigator
John Hepburn	Investigator
Robert Donaldson	Investigator
Thomas Kirkaldie	Investigator
David Hewstone	Investigator
Walter Scott	Investigator
Alexander Dick	Investigator
Richard Trimble	Investigator

linked trials
name	trial type	link	year	notes
Mareone Guild	Mentioned in trial	T/LA/1685	None
Mareone Guild	Local Court	T/LA/1721	None

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes: She met the Devil in the black gutter.

Male in black clothes

Demonic pacts

Devil's Mark under her left oxter

witches meetings

Witches meeting
Devil present

Notes: Two people at the meeting played on two slate stones.

Meeting places

Bragreen between Seaton and Tranent Green

musical instruments

no information

Folk culture

Notes: None

Counter strategies

no information

white magic

no information

Elf/fairy elements

no information

Shape-changing

no information

Ritual objects

no information

Religious motif

no information

Calendar customs

no information

Diseases or illness

Notes: None

Cause of witch's malice

no information

Other maleficia

Damage to property

no information

weather modification

no information

Notes: None

Other charges

no information

Notes: None

Plea

Claimed bewitched: no
Claimed possessed: no
Admitted lesser charges: no
No defence: no
Claimed natural causes: no
Notes: None
Case Notes: None

references
name	notes
Process Notes JC26/26/5/1	Mentioned. Also found in the High Court Record Index, no. 1 for 3/5/1659, this index did not distinguish between circuit and high court cases. This list of names was added in the margins with a modern hand, no indication of where the person got the list. I found no indication of where or whether this person was tried. Listed with others from JC26/26/5/1.
Process Notes JC26/26/5/1	interrogated
Process Notes JC26/26/5/2	mentioned
Process Notes JC26/26/5/3	None