The Crook of Devon Witch Trials, 1662

Hallyburton and Gordon say another 23 women were implicated during the trials. The confessions described demonic pacts and the devil's clothes, a man in grey clothes with a blue bonnet and a beard. Begg suggested the matching confessions came from someone impersonating Satan, but the paper thinks it likelier that the same questioners, local witch-hunters led by the minister of Fossoway and his bailie, produced the agreement. The executed were Agnes Murie, Bessie Henderson, Isabel Rutherford, Bessie Neil, Margaret Lister, Agnes Brugh, both Janet Patons, Janet Brugh, Christian Grieve and Robert Wilson. Margaret Hoggin, near eighty, avoided conviction and Agnes Pittendreich was reprieved because she was pregnant. The paper calls it a scale of persecution not known to have happened elsewhere in Scotland.