Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563 - 1736

Trial Details

commissions
commission body	type	date	seal	notes
Parliamentary	Justiciary	3/4/1661	None	Petition to parliament from Earl of Haddington. He claimed that witchcraft was increasing in his lands and had imprisoned the suspects. He also claimed that two of them were accused of robbery as well.
Parliamentary	Justiciary	3/4/1661	None	The suspects were guity and were imprisoned.

previous commissions
commission body	date
no recorded prior commission

appeals
central authority	reason	appeal date
	From the Earl of Haddington.	3/4/1661

complaints
type	date of complaint	lodged at	appeal date	complainent	involvement
no recorded complaints

move to higher legal authority
moved to	date of move
no recorded move to higher legal authority

denunciations
denuncation date	dated
no recorded denunciations

imprisonments
incarceration date	central trial imprison	prison	location	moving
None	no	Tolbooth	Haddington	no

tortures
date of torture	torture type
no recorded tortures

ordeals
date of ordeal	ordeal type
1661	Searching

confessions
central trial confession	date	location	notes
no	1661	Haddington	None

Pre-trial notes: Earl of Haddington had her arrested and searched. Marks were found and some of the accused appear to have confessed and named others. Petition to parliament from Earl of Haddington. He claimed that witchcraft was increasing in his lands and had imprisoned the suspects. He also claimed that two of them were accused of robbery as well.
watched?: no
watch date: no information
arrested?: yes
arrest date: no information
fled?: no
date absconded: no information
action dropped?: no
action dropped date: no information
action dropped by: no information
trial action body: no information
confronting suspects?: no

persons associated with the trial
name	title	office	occupation	involvement	witchpricker?	notes
no recorded additional persons

mentioned as a witch
type	name	mention date	fate	linked trialdate	trial link	notes
no mentions