Abbreviations Used in Witches Listings
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Abbreviations Used in Witches Listings
Date
- The date given is the date of trial, date a commission reviewed the case, or date when the case was last mentioned.
Sex
- F = female
- M = male
Marital Status
- U = unknown
- M = married
- S = single
- W = widowed
Trial Status
- T = taken to trial
- Proc. = preliminary proceedings taken in pre-trial processes
- Men. = mentioned as a witch by an accused person
- Com. = Privy Council or Parliamentary Commission to named individuals for local trial
Fate
- Ex .= executed
- Nk. = not known
- Ncp. = non-capital punishment
- Misc. = other outcome (escaped, died in prison, etc.)
- Acq. = acquitted
Principal Sources
- APS = Acts of Parliament of Scotland
- D = Circuit Minute Books, Scottish Record Office
- JC = Justiciary Court MSS, Scottish Record Office
- Pit = Pitcairn, Criminal Trials in Scotland (1833)
- Proc.SRO List = Scottish Record Office hand list of processes
- RPC = Register of the Privy Council, Edinburgh (1880)
- RCE = MS. Records of the Committee of Estates, Scottish Record Office
- SJC = Selected Justiciary Cases, Stair Society
- SRO Adj List = Index to Books of Adjournal, Scottish Record Office
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