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none of them would have ventured with her. Thereupon ſhe whiſtled three times, and all evaniſhed The next morning the two comrades that had gone with Lieutenant Jaquette were found dead under the city-wall among the ordure and excrements and Jaquette himſelf a little way off half dead who was taken up and coming to himſelf again, confeſſed all this, and preſently died.
This ſtory is ſimilar to one related above 50 years ago concerning one William Barton, who was apprehended for witchcraft. In his laſt confeſſion he ſaid "If I had twenty ſons I would adviſe them to ſhun the luſt of uncleanneſs. For wherever I ſaw a beautiful woman, maid, or wife I coveted her which wicked diſpoſition has been the only cauſe of my becoming the devil's vaſſal."
One day ſays he going from my own houſe in Kirkliſton to the Queensferry I overtook in Dalmeny muir a young and comely gentlewoman I drew near to her, but the ſhunned my company: and when inſiſted, ſhe became angry, and ſeemed very nice. Said I ſince we are both going one way, be pleaſed to accept of a convoy. At laſt after much entreaty ſhe became more pliant, and at laſt I was allowed all freedom and I ſoon experienced to my ſorrow afterwards whoſe embraces I had enjoyed by her propoſing to give me a mark with 15 L Scots in name of her tocher, and ſo we parted.
