Note 416 — Chapter XIV

Widdrington, in a letter to Whitelocke (Memorials, 424), says: "I met at Berwick with a discovery of witches by a Scotchman, who professeth himself an artist that way. I know not whence he derives his skill. His salary was twenty shillings for every witch. He got thirty pounds after that rate." Of the burning or imprisonment of witches, cases are mentioned by Whitelocke, in pp. 412, 423, 450, 570.