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Stewart, for witchcraft, ſent then to be burnt. The maid was ſo ſtupid that ſhe was thought to be poſſeſſed. Then ſhe had hang ſome little time on the gibbet: a black pitchey like ball formed out of her mouth and after the fire was kindled it grow to the bigneſs of a walnut and then flew up like ſquibs into the air!—'t was taken to be a viſible ſign that the devil was gone out of her.
A merchant's wife in Edinburgh having heard much ſpoken of his utterance in prayer, was deſirous to hear him and therefore attended at a neighbouring houſe which he frequented, that ſhe might be ſatisfied as to the truth of it. But it ſo happened, that altho' ſhe attended on him ſeveral times he could never be prevailed on to open his mouth in her preſence; not ſo much as a bleſſling to their entertainment but would either remain mute or take his ſtaff and ſet off.
Some few days before he diſcovered himſelf this gentlewoman coming from the caſtlehill, where her huſband's niece was lying in of a child. about midnight perceived near to the Weſtbow head in Edinburgh, three women in windows ſhouting, laughing, and clapping their hands The gentlewoman went forward till juſt at major Weir's door, when there roſe from the street a woman about the length of two ordinary females, who went before her till they came oppoſite to a narrow lane, called the ſtinking cloſs into which the ghoſt entered, and the gentlewoman looking after her, perceiv'd the cloſs full of flaming torches.
