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frontispiece - House of Major Weir
 

Twelve Scots Trials title page



 
 
CONTENTS
Preface   ix
THE PARSON OF SPOTT, 1570   1
THE DOOM OF LADY WARRISTON, 1600  16
TOUCHING ONE MAJOR WEIR, A WARLOCK, 1670   41
THE ORDEAL OF PHILIP STANFIELD, 1688  63
THE GHOST OF SERGEANT DAVIES, 1754  85
KATHARINE NAIRN, 1765 106
KEITH OF NORTHFIELD, 1766 136
"WIFE O' DENSIDE", 1827 160
CONCERNING CHRISTINA GILMOUR, 1844 191
THE ST. FERGUS AFFAIR, 1854 221
THE DUNECHT MYSTERY, 1882 248
THE ARRAN MURDER, 1889 273

 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE HOUSE OF MAJOR WEIR            Frontispiece
SCOTT KIRK To face page          8
THE TOLBOOTH OF EDINBURGH                           24
THE DEVIL'S COACH IN THE WEST BOW                           55
THE POOL IN THE TYNE NEAR NEW MILLS                           68
THE CLACHAN OF INVEREY                           86
KATHARINE NAIRN                          106
LORD KAMES                          149
FRANCIS JEFFREY                          171
TOWN OF INCHINNAN                          194
PLAN OF KIRKTOWN OF ST. FERGUS                          222
DUNECHT HOUSE                          250
THE BOULDER AT CORRIE-NA-FUHREN                          276

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