The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft

1563-1736

By Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller and Louise Yeoman, January 2003

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Case Details

C/JO/2884

name of accused
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
no accused reference present
Case date start
25/7/1661
Given case date
no information
Case commission
Privy Counil
case complaint
no information
case correspondence
no information
case chronicle
no information
other details
no information

characterisation

  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
None
linked trials
name trial type link year notes
no recorded linked trials

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
None
  • no information

Demonic pacts

  • no information

witches meetings

Notes
None

Meeting places

  • no information

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
'a great many persons' from Musselburgh, Dalkeith, Newbattle, Newton (+ Woomet) and Duddingston but no number or names specified, number calculated as three from each place. So that is 5 x 3 = 15. The Privy Council records note that the accused men and women were imprisoned and had already confessed. A commission of justiciary was issued after petitions from heritors and others from the different parishes.
references
name notes
RPC 3rd series, vol 1, p 11-12. Trials to be held at Musselburgh and Dalkeith for the people from different parishes.