[Footnote 597: Burr, p. 417.]

[Footnote 598: Increase Mather, p. 210.]

[Footnote 599: Cotton Mather, p. 81.]

[Footnote 600: Cooper, p. 91.]

[Footnote 601: _Chelmsford Witches_, pp. 24, 26, 29, 30. Philobiblon Society, viii.]

[Footnote 602: _Examination of John Walsh._]

[Footnote 603: Cannaert, p. 48.]

[Footnote 604: Whitaker, p. 216.]

[Footnote 605: Stearne, p. 29.]

[Footnote 606: Pitcairn, iii, pp. 603, 617.]

[Footnote 607: Cotta, p. 114.]

[Footnote 608: Danaeus, ch. iv.]

[Footnote 609: R. Scot, Bk. III, p. 44.]

[Footnote 610: Holinshed, _Ireland_, p. 58.]

[Footnote 611: Philobiblon Society, viii, _Chelmsford Witches_, pp. 29, 30.]

[Footnote 612: Id. ib., viii, p. 34.]

[Footnote 613: _Examination of John Walsh._]

[Footnote 614: Remigius, pt. i, p. 54.]

[Footnote 615: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, p. 120; Burton, i, p. 252.]

[Footnote 616: Pitcairn, ii, pp. 542-3.]

[Footnote 617: From an unpublished trial in the Justiciary Court at Edinburgh. The meaning of the word _laif_ is not clear. The Oxford dictionary gives _lop-eared_, the Scotch dictionary gives _loaf_. By a.n.a.logy with the other accounts one would expect here a word meaning a hen.]

[Footnote 618: _Highland Papers_, iii, p. 18.]

[Footnote 619: Lemoine, vi, p. 109.]

[Footnote 620: Reg. Scot, Bk. III, p. 41.]

[Footnote 621: Id., Bk. II, p. 32.]

[Footnote 622: Boguet, p. 205.]

[Footnote 623: Ravaisson, p. 334, 335.]

[Footnote 624: Sharpe, p. 147.]

[Footnote 625: Chambers, iii, p. 450.]

[Footnote 626: Scot, Bk. III, p. 42.]

[Footnote 627: Sinistrari de Ameno, p. 27.]

[Footnote 628: See, amongst others, the account of Mary Johnson (Ess.e.x, 1645), who was accused of poisoning two children; the symptoms suggest belladonna. Howell, iv, 844, 846.]

[Footnote 629: Scot, Bk. III, p. 41.]

[Footnote 630: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 128.]

[Footnote 631: Kinloch, p. 121.]

[Footnote 632: Bodin, _Fleau_, pp. 187-8.]

[Footnote 633: Boguet, p. 141.]

[Footnote 634: Cannaert, p. 50.]

[Footnote 635: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 133.]

[Footnote 636: _La Tradition_, 1891, v, p. 215. Neither name nor place are given.]

[Footnote 637: Bourignon, _Parole_, p. 87.]

[Footnote 638: _Scot. Hist. Soc._, xxv, p. 348. _See also_ Ross, _Aberdour and Inchcolme_, p. 339.]

[Footnote 639: _Prod. and Trag. History_, p. 7.]

[Footnote 640: _Tryall of Ann Foster_, p. 8.]

[Footnote 641: Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, pp. 211, 235, 238.]

[Footnote 642: De Lancre, _L'Incredulite_, p. 772.]

[Footnote 643: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, pp. 120, 124.]

[Footnote 644: From the record of the trial in the Justiciary Court of Edinburgh.]

[Footnote 645: Sharpe, p. 132.]

[Footnote 646: Glanvil, pt. ii, pp. 137, 164.]