'after his Confession had called out of his prison Window, desiring Baily Scott to keep that old body Angus Forrester, who had been his fellow prisoner, closs and secure; whereupon the company asked John when they were leaving him on Friday night the 21th of May, whether he desired company or would be afraid alone, he said he had no fear of anything: So being left till Saturday in the Forenoon, he was found in this posture, viz. sitting upon a stool which was on the Hearth of the Chimney, with his feet on the floor and his Body straight upward, his shoulders touching the lintel of the Chimney, but his Neck tyed with his own neck-cloath (whereof the knot was behind) to a small stick thrust into a hole above the lintel of the Chimney, upon which the Company, especially John Campbel a Chyrurgeon who was called, thought at first in respect of his being in an ordinary posture of sitting, and the neck-cloath not having any drawn knot (or _run loup_) but an ordinary one which was not very strait, and the sticke not having the strength to bear the weight of his Body or the struggle, that he had not been quite dead; but finding it otherways, and that he was in such a Situation that he could not have been the Actor thereof himself, concluded that some extraordinary Agent had done it, especially considering that the Door of the Room was secured, and that there was a board set over the Window which was not there the night before when they left him.'[829] A similar fate befell the warlock Playfair in 1597. He was found strangled in his prison at Dalkeith with the 'point' of his breeches tied round his neck.[830] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 735: Cotton Mather, p. 160.] [Footnote 736: De Lancre, _Tableau_, p. 123.] [Footnote 737: Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, pp. 219, 220, 239, 240.] [Footnote 738: Potts, B 2.] [Footnote 739: Sinclair, pp. 46, 47.] [Footnote 740: Kinloch, pp. 124, 129.] [Footnote 741: Pitcairn, iii, pp. 603, 605.] [Footnote 742: Pitcairn, iii, p. 617.] [Footnote 743: Glanvil, pt. ii, pp. 139, 147, 148.] [Footnote 744: Id., pt. ii, pp. 291, 293.] [Footnote 745: Pitcairn, i, pt. iii, p. 246.] [Footnote 746: _Spalding Club Misc._, pp. 97, 98.] [Footnote 747: Ib., p. 115.] [Footnote 748: Fountainhall, i, p. 14.] [Footnote 749: Law, p. 145.] [Footnote 750: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, p. 142.] [Footnote 751: _Spottiswoode Misc._, ii, p. 67.] [Footnote 752: Ib., ii, p. 68.] [Footnote 753: Sinclair, p. 219.] [Footnote 754: Pearson, ii, p. 26.] [Footnote 755: _Rehearsall_, par. 26.] [Footnote 756: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, p. 171.] [Footnote 757: De Lancre, _L'Incredulité_, p. 36.] [Footnote 758: Id., _Tableau_, p. 401.] [Footnote 759: Pitcairn, iii, pp. 610, 613.] [Footnote 760: Burr, p. 417.] [Footnote 761: Lemoine, _La Tradition_, 1892, vi, pp. 108, 109. The italics are in the original.]