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5 Agnes Simson of Keith, was burned in 1590.

Euphan M‘Calzeane, was burned in 1591.

Patrick Lawrie, in 1605, was burned alive.

Margaret Wallace. in 1620, was strangled and burned.

Isobel Young, in East Barns, was tried, for having by enchantment stopped a mill 29 years before: she was strangled and burned.

Alex Hamilton was burned alive in 1630, for having had many meetings with the devil, from whom he received as severe drubbing for not keeping an appointment.

In 1697, in the shire of Renfrew, seven persons were convicted and committed to the flames in one day.

John Neil was found guilty in 1631 and the usual sentence was pronounced.

Janet Brown and two other women, in 1649, were convicted, condemned, and executed in one day.

Elspeth Rule, who was tried before Lord Dumfries Circuit. on the May 1709 was burned on the cheek and banished Scotland for life.

The last person who was brought to the stake in Scotland, was condemned by Capt David Ross, of Sutherland in 1722.

The devil has never been seen in Scotland since.

For Adultery.

John Gutherie, was Executed at the Cross of Edinburgh, in 1617.

Patrick Robertson and Marion Kempt, were sentenced to be executed on a gibbet at the Castle hill, in 1627.

John Murdoch and Janet Douglas, both married persons, were tried in 1690. The was restricted, and they were banished for life.

The last person that was tried in Scotland for adultery, was the Rev. Mr. Nisbet of the Established Church of Scotland. He was a minister in Invernesshire, and was tried in 1762, and sentenced to be banished beyond seas.

This law with regard to adultery, still remains in force Scotland.