Shanks,Thomas

Devil Present	No
Communal Sex	No
Devil Worship	No
Food and Drink	No
Dancing	No
Singing	No

Meeting Places

Place	Location	Inversion
Hilltop	Gallowberry Hill	No

Type	Text
Servant
Head and foot
Anti-baptism
Want nothing
New name	Willie
Devil's Mark	on right hand

Devil Appearances

Type	Text
Male	little man, in blue, blue hat, black staff

• Charming

Notes: Presbytery accepted that he was guilty of charming and witchcraft in 1643 and ordered him to make public satisfaction.

Name	Title	Involvement	Notes
Thomas Crawford	elder	Confession Witness
Robert Douglas	Mr portioner of Linton	Commissioner
Theodore Hay	Mr	Confession Witness
Andrew Hay	elder of Haystoun	Commissioner
James Horseburgh		Confession Witness
John Horseburgh		Confession Witness
James Horseburgh		Commissioner
Robert Hunter	of Polmood	Commissioner
John Lowes		Commissioner
Alexander Murray	Sir	Commissioner
Michael Scott	Mr	Commissioner
Alexander Spittal	Mr	Commissioner
Robert Thomson		Confession Witness
Thomas Williamson		Confession Witness
James Williamson	elder	Commissioner

Source	Reference	Notes
		Gunn, C B 'The Book of Stobo Church' (Peebles, 1907), p 50-1. The project did not check Larner's reference to this printed secondary source as part of the research.
Peebles Presbytery records	CH2/295/2, 156v, r	Note that accused suspected of witchcraft and minister ordered to make inquiries in the parish. Later told to make public satisfaction in the kirks of Manor, Stobo, Lyne, Eddleston, Innerleithen and Peebles.
Peebles Presbytery records	CH2/295/3, 129r, 130v.	Later entry details his confession of demonic pact.
Peebles Presbytery records	CH2/295/4, 1r	Entry records local trial
Committee of Estates	PA11/8 fo. 184r.