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with the Inuocatioun of the spreitis of the Dewill; spe-
ciallie, in the visioune and forme of ane Mr William
Sympsoune " (who was with the fairies, having been
carried away by them), and
for hanting and repairing with the gude nychtbouris and Quene of
Elfame, thir diuers aeiris bypast, as scho had confest be hir deposi-
tiounis, declaring that scho could nocht say reddelie how lang scho
wes with thame; and that scho had freindis in that court quhilk
wes of hir awin blude, quha had gude acquentance of the Quene of
Elphane, quhilk mycht haif helpit hir: bot scho wes quhyles weill
and quhyles ewill, and ane quhyle with thame and ane vthir quhyle
away; and that scho wald be in hir bed haill and feir, and wald
nocht wit quhair scho wald be or the morne: And that scho saw
nocht the Quene thir sewin seir: And that scho had mony guid
freindis in that court, bot wer all away now: And that scho wes
sewin seir ewill handlit in the Court of Elfane and had kynd
freindis thair, bot had na will to visseit thame eftir the end: And
that itt wes thay guid nychtbouris that haillit hir vnder God: And
that scho wes cuming and gangand to Sanct Androus in hailling of
folkis, thir saxtene seiris bypa~t.?~
Andro Man, " convictis . . . as a manifest vitche, be
oppin voce and commoun fame," and by the " haill as-
sise," according to the dittay against him, owed his con-
viction to the " Devil1 " who came to him " in the liknes
and scheap of a woman, quhom thow callis the Quene of
Elphen," with whom he continued in familiarity " threttie
twa yeris sensyn or thairby." He was most familiar
with the company of the Queen of Elfame, among whom
were " sindrie deid men," " the kyng that deit in Flow-
doun and Thomas Rymour," and affirmed that:
the elphis hes schapes and claythis lyk men, . . . that thay ar bot
schaddowis, bot ar starker nor men, and that thay have playing and
dansing quhen thay pleas; and als that the quene is verray plesand,
76 Ibid., Vol. I, pt. 2, pp. 161-162.