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Church Discipline. 323
toun fra Johne Dryer, at the milne of Auckinhueff in
the moneth of Marche, four scoir fyftene yeris, and the
said unquhill Agnes having brocht the said schowder
to the houss of Bertrix Rebbie, thy dochter, compartner
with thee in all thy deuilische practizes, quhair the said
unquhill Agnes tareit all that night, thou and thy
dochter tuk out thrie grippis out of the middist of the
said schowder, and causit rost the same upon the morn
quhilk being rosted, and the said unquhill Agnes eating
thereof, scho instantly contractit a deadlie disease,
quhairin scho continowet the space of thrie quarteres
of a yere, the ane halff of the day burning as giff it had
been in a fyrie fornace, and the other halff of the day
melting away in a caulds weyte, qurof scho at last de-
parted this lyff, and this thou can nocht deny, for the
said unquhill Agnes immediately befoir her departure
left the wyet on the and thy said dochter."
The " dittay " against Margaret Clerk includes the
following charge : — " Thou art accusit, that being
desyrit by Alexander Cultis att the mylne of Auch-
lassin, to cum to him, quho had then ane cow cafHt and
the said cow wald na ways suffer hir calif to souk hir,
nether wald the cow taik with the calff, bot contineulie
repynet and strak the sam, thou said then to the said
Alexander, I sail remeid this, and sail gar the cow to
taik with the calff, and the calff souk the cow. And
immediatlie thairefter, thou passin in the byre quhair
the calff and cow was, and wald not suffer the said
Alexander nor hys wyff gang in the byre with the, nor
no other, but put them all out except thy selffe allone,
and thair by thy devilische sorcerie and inchantment
after thou had sitten dovvne in the stane before the
eo wis head, thou gave ane devilische low and terible