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THE ASSEl\1BLIES 123the irregularity of the dates : ' Efter that, " ·e void still me-iteuerie ten, twel\'e, or twantie clayes continwally.' 1 1\larieLamont merely notes that the tneetings were at night : 'Thedeyi} carne to l(attrein Scott's house in the n1idst of the night .. . . \\.hen she had been at a tnietting sine Zowlc last, withother witches, in the night, the devill con\'oycd her home inthe clawing.' 2 The Sotnerset witches had no special night :'At every 1ueeting before the Spirit yanishcth away, heappoints the next 1neeting place and time, '~ and ~Iary Greenwent to a tneedng ·on rfhursday Night before \Vhi tsunday last '. 4.At Paisley the meeting was on Thursday, the 4th of January,1678, in the night, in John Stuart's house.:. The Swedishwitches were much harder worked : 'whereas formerly onejourney a week would ser\'e his turn, fron1 their own Townto the place aforesaid, no\\' they were forced to run to otherTowns and places for Children, and that some of them didbring with them some fifteen, some sixteen Children eyerynight.' 11The more modern examples suggest that the date becamemore fixed: 'On c1oit que c'est toujours un \·cndredi soir queles sorciers et sorcieres se reunissent.' 7 ' Sorciers et sorcieresVOllt au Sabbat le Yendredi, a travers les airs.' -;1Pitcairn, iii, p. 617.3Glam·il, pt. ii, p. 139.;, ld .. . , pt. 11, pp. 293, ~97·7l\fonscur,p.87.2Sharpe, pp. 131, 133·4I d., pt. ii, p. 164.G llorneck, pt. ii, p. 318 .~ Lemoine, Lt Tradition, 1 89~, vi, p. 106 .