1. Thought for Today: "That pestilent cosmetic, rhetoric." _ T.H.

2. The impacts of weather and pestilent insects on the harvest of the winter–spring rice crop are to blame for the modest agricultural growth.

3. If their parents were thought to be witches, then it is certeinlie to be presumed that they are to (sic)" Others at risk of being accused included atheists ,the elderly, poor and the lame, along with those "full of wrinkles, leane, deformed and melancholic". If a "witch" failed to confess under torture "her apparel must be changed, and everie haire on their bodie must be shaved off with a sharpe razor". Scott declares that "witchcraft and inchantment is the cloke (sic) of ignorance" and criticises the fact that "the complaint of anie one man of credit is sufficient to bring a poore woman to the racke or pullie". He adds: "It is natural to unnaturall people, and peculiar unto witchmongers, to pursue the poore, to accuse the simple and to kill the innocent." As an example of the "pestilent practices" of the day, he records the lengths to which one Katherine Loe went in order to restore her husband‘s interest in the bedroom.