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284 Scotland, Social and Domestic.
He baid ws cum and thair to deine,
Baytli quick and dead as his thocht convene.
I trow als in tlie Haly Gaist. In Haly Kirk
my trust is maist,
That halyschip quhair hallowaris winnes
To ask forgeveness of my sinnes,
And syne to ryis in flesch and bane,
The lyffe that newir mair lies gane.
Thow sayis, Lord, lovit mocht ye be,
That form'd and maid mankynd of me ;
Thow coft me on the haly croce,
And lent me body, saull, and voce,
And ordanit me to heavinnis bliss,
Quhairfor I thank ye Lord for this ;
And all your hallowaris lovit be
To pray to theme to pray to me,
And keep me fra the fellon fae,
And fra the syn the saull wuld slay.
Thow, Lord, for thy lyten passioun in
To keep me frome syn and warldlie schame
And endles damnation.
Grant me the joy newir wilbe gane,
Sweet Jesus Cristas. Amen."
Witches were believed not to pray, but Mrs. Simpson
declared that she prayed on every fitting opportunity.
The statement did not avail her. When weary of her
revelations, the King committed her for trial, and the
Justiciary Court and its jury satisfied the monarch by
her conviction. She was sentenced " to be tane to the
Castell of Edinburgh, and there bund to ane staik and
wirreit, quhill she be deid ; and thereafter hir body to
be br'int in asis."
Dr. John Cunningham, another of the accused, was a
man of reputed scholarship ; he seems, in addition to his
scholastic duties, to have practised medicine. As he
asserted his innocence of sorcery, he was subjected to