1. Trial of Elizabeth [Elspeth] Rule, 1709, SSWD. See also William McDowall, History of the Burgh of Dumfries with Notices of Nithsdale, Annandale, and the Western Border (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1867) 434–5. Black’s Calendar cites the Southern Circuit Book 1708–1710 in MSS that I have so far been unable to locate.
2. J. Maxwell Wood, Witchcraft in South-West Scotland (1911; Wakefield: EP, 1975).
3. Edward J. Cowan, “The Solemn League and Covenant,” in Scotland and England, 1286–1815, ed. R. A. Mason (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1987) 182–202; idem, “The Making of the National Covenant,” in The Scottish National Covenant in Its British Context, 1638–51, ed. J. Morrill (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990) 68–89; idem, “The Covenanting Tradition in Scottish History,” in Scottish History: The Power of the Past, ed. E. J. Cowan and R. J. Finlay (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002) 121–45.
4. Ian Bostridge, Witchcraft and Its Transformations, c. 1650–c.1750 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) 21–37.
5. Alastair Livingstone, “The Galloway Levellers: A Study of the Origins, Events and Consequences of their Actions,” MLitt(R) thesis, University of Glasgow (2009).