Note 17 — MINUTES, &c.
Reading edition
The Reverend Allan Logan, the minister, is still famous all over the country for his skill in discovering witches; and used, when administering the Sacrament, to say, "You witch wife get up from the table of the Lord," when some unhappy old woman would have risen, imagining she was pointed at, and it was well if it did not afterwards cost her her life. Daft or not, he was certainly a most wretched fanatic of the worst description.—Ed.