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The pioneering modern scholar of Scottish witch-hunting, Christina Larner, clarified the pattern of Scottish witch-hunting and showed that much of it occurred in brief bursts.1 Larner listed five major peak periods which she called national witch-hunts: 1590–1591, 1597, 1628–1630, 1649 and 1661–1662.2 The recent Survey of Scottish Witchcraft confirms this pattern, even as it increases the numbers based on further research.
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Cf. Keith Brown, ‘In search of the godly magistrate in Reformation Scotland’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 40 (1989), 553–81.
Julian Goodare, ‘The Scottish witchcraft act’, Church History, 74 (2005), 39–67
Lee, James Stewart, is still the only füll biography of Moray, but he features in most of the works dealing with the 1560s. Amy Blakeway, ‘The response to the Regent Moray’s assassination’, SHR, 88 (2009), 9–33
Frank D. Bardgett, ScotlandReformed: The Reformation in Angus and the Mearns (Edinburgh, 1989), 53, 72–3, 77, 119, 122, 124, 126, 131. See also Edward J. Cowan, ‘The Angus Campbells and the origin of the Campbell-Ogilvie feud’, Scottish Studies, 25 (1981), 25–38.
John Row, The History of the Kirk of Scotland, 1558–1637, ed. David Laing (Edinburgh: Wodrow Society, 1842), 35.
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Wasser, M. (2013). ScotlancTs First Witch-Hunt: The Eastern Witch-Hunt of 1568–1569. In: Goodare, J. (eds) Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137355942_2
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