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Euphame MacCalzean

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MacCalzean married Patrick Moscrop or Moscrope, who served as a Justice deputy, but the relative power of their families meant that Patrick took his father-in-law's surname of MacCalzean. This was normal practice where trying to preserve a family name where the sole heir was female. They were married
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The charges included the accusation that she had used her skills to relieve the God-ordained pain of women giving birth. Macalzean was said to have caused the death of her cousin and her nephew. She had argued with her uncle over the ownership of some land at Cliftonhall in
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In 1586 Eufame and Patrick were involved in a dispute with Edinburgh town council. During an outbreak of plague, on Christmas Day 1585, the council had moved the quarantined and infected people from the Borough Muir, or modern
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and it was alleged that she had killed his son, her nephew, because of this dispute. MacCalzean was said to have attended an assembly of witches at
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was given to John Shaw, an officer in the royal stables. Shaw was killed in the defence of James VI at the
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MacCalzean was found guilty and burnt alive on 25 June 1591 on the southern slope of the Castle Hill below
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The cause of the events that led to the North Berwick Witch Trials was the behavior of a maid named
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and several others were accused of witchcraft. It was alleged that they had killed the
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The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004
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by witchcraft, and planned to murder the first king of England and Scotland,
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from 1570, who recognized Euphame legally as his daughter and heir in 1558.
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by December 1579 when they made a joint contract with a Canongate burgess.
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Moir, Scott (2006). Ewan, Elizabeth; Innes, Sue; Reynolds, Sian (eds.).
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Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh: 1589-1603
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James VI gave her estate of Cliftonhall to his favourite
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was given to the devil for the destruction of the king.
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A plaque on the Castle Esplanade remembers the event.
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Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 1585–1592
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The annotated Daemonologie : a critical edition
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Index

Edinburgh
North Berwick witch trials
Edinburgh
Thomas McCalzean
Provost
Senator of the College of Justice
Meadows
Privy Council

North Berwick witch trials
Geillis Duncan
Devil
Agnes Sampson
Earl of Angus
James VI
Anne of Denmark
Kirkliston
Acheson's Haven
James VI

Edinburgh Castle
Sir James Sandilands
Slamannan
High Street
Raid of Holyrood
ISBN
9781532968914
OCLC
1008940058

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