Notes About Gourock: Chiefly Historical (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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In the year 1662 the Privy Council granted a com mission to several gentlemen for the trial of some women in Gourock and Greenock who were reputed to be witches. These women had been led (under what influence from within or pressure from without is not known) to declare that they had entered into compact with the devil. One of them was Mary Lamont, a girl still in her teens.

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