Grissell Morris

1643, April 6.— That day, Grissell Morris, being accused of sundry acts of witchcraft spoken and done by her, whose confessions at this time and in the time she was in prison, with the declaration and deposition of many witnesses are in scrolls, and the said Grissell was burnt as a witch on the 17th of May following.

July 16, — That day, the magistrates of the burgh asked for help in watching of the women detained in prison for witchcraft, because the burgh is not able to provide for the criminals of that kind, there being so many, and so frequent, and the burgh being so often charged and
troubled with the taking and watching of them.

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