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Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll (1574–1607), attributed to Adrian Vanson. Women in early modern Scotland, between the Renaissance of the early sixteenth century and the beginnings of industrialisation in the mid-eighteenth century, were part of a patriarchal society, though the enforcement of this social order was not absolute in all aspects.
Lilias Adie (c. 1640 – 1704) [1] was a Scottish woman who lived in the coastal village of Torryburn, Fife, Scotland. [1] She was accused of practising witchcraft and fornicating with the devil but died in prison before sentence could be passed. Her intertidal grave is the only known one in Scotland of an accused witch – most were burned. [2]
Marie would not have been known as "Marie Lauder" after her marriage, because women in early modern Scotland did not usually adopt their husband's surnames. [15] [16] Hatton or Haltoun is an estate near Kirkliston in Ratho parish. [8] Alexander Lauder was a son of William Lauder (died 1596) and Jean Cockburn (died 1600).
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Early modern Scotland was a theoretically patriarchal society, in which men had total authority over women, but how this worked is practice is difficult to discern. [36] Marriages, particularly higher in society, were often political in nature and the subject of complex negotiations over the tocher .
The early modern period saw the Scottish courts trying many cases of witchcraft [3] and witch hunts began in about 1550. [4] The parliament of Mary, Queen of Scots, passed the Scottish Witchcraft Act in 1563, [5] making convictions for witchcraft subject to capital punishment. [6]
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