History KT1 - North Berwick

1503-60

peter palladius

1547

Denmark forbade torture

1563

witchcraft act forbade sorcery, bit skeptical

1576

Bessie Dunlop claims the devil tried make her Catholic

appeal could be heard in copenhagen's high court

1575

Hemmingsen wrote 'Avoiding Magic and Superstition'

1573

kirk's general assembly told witches just to repent

1583

bothwell tries oust royal fav, earl of arran

1584

James writes essay, in which he references play 'flyting'

1587

bothwell criticises James for not saving Mary

1585 - 1592

relative peace between monarch and Kirk

September 1589

anne tries to sail first time of three

October 1589

James departs for Denmark

1589

Bothwell found guilty of treason for conspiring to seize the King

Pre 1590

no evidence james had interest in witchcraft

July 1590

danish and scottish witchcraft connection first made

Spring 1590

James remains in Denmark until this date

1590

gilly duncan questioned

James interested in sampson

richard graham taken into custody

20th December 1590

John Fian is arrested

November 1590

Initial arrests

1590-91

North Berwick Hunts - linked to storms

15th April 1591

Bothwell arrested

April 1591

Bothwell summoned before Privy Council

June 1591

Escapee Bothwell

June + a few days 1591

Bothwell enters the palace to speak with James

27th December 1591

Unsuccessfully attacks Holyrood palace

October 1591

5 Judges named on witch commission

April 1592

Privy Council finds Bothwell guilty of witchcraft in his absence

June 1592

Bothwell makes another attempt to capture the King

July-October 1592

many of Bothwell's supporters charged

mid 1592

King gives commissions for witchcraft to nobles and magistrates

1592

King content to leave church to deal with witchcraft

24th July 1593

Bothwell breaks into James' bedroom

August 1593

Trial is held to clear Bothwell of charges - breaking into his bedroom clearly worked ig

September 1593

Pardon withdrawn - twist???

March 1594

Bothwell attacks James' forces at Leith

Early 1595

Bothwell proclaimed guilty of treason again

1595

Three suspected witches sent to Edinburgh

Several witches burned in Merse

Edinburgh authorities torture Alison Balfour and co.

1596

James redirects requests for witch commissions to Privy Council instead

Trial of Alison Jollie in Edinburgh

James appears at trial of Cristian Stewart

Sir William Steward given commissions for Highland and Islands region

open conflict between King and Kirk

1597

Daemonologie

Accusations due to famine and disease

Church exercised their witchcraft system

James takes interest in events of Stirlingshire

March 1597

Trial at Aberdeen of Janet Wishart

October 1597

Aberdeen hunt ends

April 1597

Margaret Aitken arrested, reports witches for James

16th September 1597

Made Stirlingshire authorities send suspect to him, reigniting the case

1612

Bothwell dies in Naples

May 1590

James and Anne arrive in Scotland