“Major Weir’s mother appears to have set the example of witchcraft to her children, as Jean Weir, while in prison, declared that ‘she was persuaded that her mother was a witch; for the secretest thing that either I myself, or any of the family, could do, when once a mark appeared upon her brow, she could tell it them, though done at a great distance.’ Being demanded what sort of a mark it was, she answered, ‘I have some such like mark myself, when I please, upon my forehead.’ Whereupon she offered to uncover her head, for visible satisfaction. The minister refusing to behold it, and forbidding any discovery, was earnestly requested by some spectators to allow the freedom. He yielded: she put back her head-dress, and, seeming to frown, there was an exact horse-shoe, shaped for nails, in her wrinkles, terrific enough, I assure you, to the stoutest beholder.”—_Sinclair’s Satan’s Invisible World Discovered._ THE END. FOOTNOTES: [75] “The family of Grierson is descended from Gilbert, the second son of Malcolm, Laird of M‘Gregor, who died in 1374. His son obtained a charter from the Douglas family of the lands and barony of Lagg, in Nithsdale, and Little Dalton, in Annandale; since which his descendants have continued in Nithsdale, and married into the best families in that part of the country, namely those of Lord Maxwell, the Kirkpatricks of Closeburn, the Charterises of Amisfield, the Fergusons of Craigdarroch, and of the Duke of Queensberry.”—_Grose’s Antiquities of Scotland._ * * * * * [Transcriber’s Note—the following changes have been made to this text. Frontispiece: SUBSEQUANTLY to SUBSEQUENTLY—“AND SUBSEQUENTLY BY”. Page vi: BALDERSTON to BALDERSTONE—“(CALEB BALDERSTONE)”. Page 6: stiil to still—“still continue to be”. Page 17: dittograph “during during” corrected—“during the sermon”. Page 31: boronet to baronet—“baronet of Orchardston”. Page 56: imimmediately to immediately—“it was immediately opened”. Page 58: Here to Her—“Her propensities”. Page 93: Burley to Burly—“history of Burly”. Page 118: nïaveté to naïveté—“marked by a naïveté”. Page 120, note: Carpshearn to Carsphearn—“Semple, of Carsphearn.” Page 136, note: Tripatiarchicon to Tripatriarchicon—“copy of the Tripatriarchicon”. Page 144: thefirst to the first—“the first intelligence”. Page 147: Trament to Tranent—“Berwick to Tranent”. Page 149, note: ca to ça—“_ça ira_”. Page 182: decendants to descendants—“his descendants have continued”.]