Appendix I: The Scottish Witchcraft Act, 4 June 1563 Anentis Witchcraftis ITEM Forsamekill as the Quenis Majestie and thre Estatis in this present Parliament being informit, that the havy and abominabill superstitioun usit be divers of the liegis of this Realme, be using of Witchcraftis, Sorsarie and Necromancie, and credence gevin thairto in tymes bygane aganis the Law of God: And for avoiding and away putting of all sic vane superstitioun in tymes tocum: It is statute and ordanit be the Quenis Majestie, and thre Estatis foirsaidis, that na maner of persoun nor persounis, of quhatsumever estate, degre or conditioun they be of, tak upone hand in ony tymes heirefter, to use ony maner of Witchcraftis, Sorsarie or Necromancie, nor gif thame selfis furth to have ony sic craft or knawlege thairof, thairthrow abusand the pepill: Nor that na persoun seik ony help, response or cosultatioun at ony sic usaris or abusaris foirsaidis of Witchcraftis, Sorsareis or Necromancie, under the pane of deid, aslweill to be execute aganis the usar, abusar, as the seikar of the response or consultatioun. And this to be put to executioun be the Justice, Schireffis, Stewartis, Baillies, Lordis of Regaliteis and Rialteis, thair Deputis, and uthers Ordinar Jugeis competent within this Realme, with all rigour, having powar to execute the samin. 329 Appendix II: The Witchcraft Act, 1735 9 Geo. 2 c. 5 An Act to repeal the Statute made in the First Year of the Reign of King James the First, intituled, An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits, except so much thereof as repeals an Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Against Conjurations, Inchantments, and Witchcrafts, and to repeal an Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland in the Ninth Parliament of Queen Mary, intituled, Anentis Witchcrafts, and for pun- ishing such Persons as pretended to exercise or use any Kind of Witchcraft, Sorcery, Inchantment, or Conjuration. Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the Statutue made in the first Year of the Reign of King James the First, intituled, An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits, shall, from the Twenty-fourth Day of June next, be repealed and utterly void and of none Effect (except so much thereof as repeals the Statute made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act against Conjuration, Inchantments and Witchcrafts). II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said Twenty-fourth Day of June, the Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, in the Ninth Parliament of Queen Mary, intituled, Anentis Witchcrafts, shall be, and is hereby repealed. III. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said Twenty-fourth Day of June, no Prosection, Suit, or Proceeding, shall be commenced or car- ried on against any Person or Persons for Witchcraft, Sorcery, Inchantment or Conjuration, or for charging another with any such offence, in any Court whatsoever in Great Britain. IV. And for the more effectual preventing and punishing of any Pretences to such Arts and Powers as are before mentioned, whereby ignorant Persons are frequently deluded and defrauded; be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Person shall, from and after the said Twenty-forth Day of June, pretend to exercise or use any kind of Witchcraft, Sorcery, Inchantment or Conjuration, or undertake to tell Fortunes, or pretend from his or her Skill or Knowledge in any occult or crafty Science, to discover where or in what Manner any Goods or Chattels, supposed to have been stolent or lost, may be found, every Person so offending, being thereof law- fully convicted on Indictment or Information in that part of Great Britain 330 Appendix II: The Witchcraft Act, 1735 331 called England, or on Indictment or Libel in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, shall for every such offence suffer Inprisonment by the Space of one whole Year without Bail or Mainprize, and once in every Quarter of the said Year in some Market Town of the proper County, upon the Market Day, there stand openly on the Pillory by the Space of One Hour, and also shall (if the Court by which such Judgement shall be given shall think fit) be obliged to give Sureties for his or her good Behaviour, in such Sum, and for such Time, as the said Court shall judge proper according to the Circumstances of the Offence, and in such case shall be further imprisoned until such Sureties be given. 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