entered her husband to his harvest service; also that the said _effigies_ was made upon the fourth day of January instant, and that the devil’s name was _Ejoal_; that declarant’s spirit’s name was Jonas, and Bessie Weir’s spirit’s name, who was officer, was _Sopha_; and that Margaret Jackson’s spirit’s name was _Locas_; and that Annabil Stuart’s spirit’s name, the declarant’s sister, was Enippa; but does not remember what _Margery Craige’s_ spirit’s name was. Declares that he cannot write. This confession was emitted in the presence of the witnesses to the other confession, and on the same day.—_Ita est._ Robertus Park, _Notarius Publicus_. The next confession is that of Margaret, relict of Thomas Shaws, who being examined by the justices, anent her being guilty of witchcraft, declares that she was present at the making of the first effigies and picture that were made in Jannet Mathie’s house, in October; and that the devil, in the shape of a black man, Jannet Mathie, Bessie Weir, Margery Craige, and Annabil Stuart, were present at the making of them, and that they were made to represent Sir George Maxwel, of Pollock, for the taking away his life. Declares, that 40 years ago, or thereabout, she was at Pollockshaw Croft, with some few sticks on her back, that the black man came to her, and that she did give up herself unto him, from the top of her head to the sole of her foot; and that this was after declarant had renounced her baptism, and that the spirit’s name which he designed her was Locas: and that about the third or fourth of January instant, or thereby, in the night-time, when she awaked, she found a man to be in bed with her, whom she supposed to be her husband, though her husband had been dead twenty years or thereby, and that the said man immediately disappeared; that this man who disappeared was the devil. Declares, that upon Thursday the fourth of January instant, she was present in the house of John Stuart, at night, when the _effigies_ of clay was made, and that she saw the black man there, sometimes sitting, sometimes standing with John Stuart; and that the black man’s cloaths were black, and that he had white handcuffs; and that Bessie Weir, in Pollocton, and Annabil Stuart, in Shaws, and Margery Craigie, were at the aforesaid time and place at making the said effigies of clay; and declares that she gave her consent to the making of the same, and that the devil’s name who _compeered_ in the black man’s shape was Ejoll. _Sic Subscribitur, ita est_, Robertus Park, _Notatius Publicus_, &c. _Then follows the depositions of certain persons, agreeing with confessions of the above-said witches._