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For Blasphemy.

Thomas Aikenhead, for denying the Trinity, &e., was executed at the Gallowlee, on the 8th January, 1697.

John Ogilvie, a Catholic, was tried in 1615, before the Protestant Magistrates of Glasgow, for saying of Mass, &c. He was found guilty, and hanged that same afternoon! Such was the liberality of our Protestant ancestors.

For Witchcraft.

Alison Pearson, was strangled and burned in May, 1588

Janet Grant and Janet Clark were burned in August, 1590.