About: Clement Cor

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Clement Cor was a Scottish merchant based in Edinburgh. His father, Andrew Cor, was a merchant in Edinburgh. Cor's house, partly built in 1590, survives in Edinburgh's Advocate's Close. In September 1596, with the physician Gilbert Moncreiff and kirk minister Robert Bruce he interviewed a woman from Nokwalter in Perth, Christian Stewart, who was accused of causing the death of Patrick Ruthven by witchcraft. She confessed she had obtained a cloth from Isobel Stewart to bewitch Patrick Ruthven, and repeated this confession to the king and Sir George Home at Linlithgow Palace. She was found guilty of witchcraft and burnt on Edinburgh's Castlehill.

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  • Clement Cor was a Scottish merchant based in Edinburgh. His father, Andrew Cor, was a merchant in Edinburgh. Cor's house, partly built in 1590, survives in Edinburgh's Advocate's Close. In September 1596, with the physician Gilbert Moncreiff and kirk minister Robert Bruce he interviewed a woman from Nokwalter in Perth, Christian Stewart, who was accused of causing the death of Patrick Ruthven by witchcraft. She confessed she had obtained a cloth from Isobel Stewart to bewitch Patrick Ruthven, and repeated this confession to the king and Sir George Home at Linlithgow Palace. She was found guilty of witchcraft and burnt on Edinburgh's Castlehill. Clement Cor moved to St Andrews and died there. (en)
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  • Clement Cor was a Scottish merchant based in Edinburgh. His father, Andrew Cor, was a merchant in Edinburgh. Cor's house, partly built in 1590, survives in Edinburgh's Advocate's Close. In September 1596, with the physician Gilbert Moncreiff and kirk minister Robert Bruce he interviewed a woman from Nokwalter in Perth, Christian Stewart, who was accused of causing the death of Patrick Ruthven by witchcraft. She confessed she had obtained a cloth from Isobel Stewart to bewitch Patrick Ruthven, and repeated this confession to the king and Sir George Home at Linlithgow Palace. She was found guilty of witchcraft and burnt on Edinburgh's Castlehill. (en)
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  • Clement Cor (en)
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