Crossword-Solution: PLAYIT 6 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Isobel had been the dancer immediately after Thomas Lees at the Fish Cross, "and because the dewill playit not so melodiously and well as thow cravit, thow took his instrument out of his mouth, then tuik him on the chafts (chops) therewith, and playit thyself theiron to the haill company." What further evidence could possibly be required to prove that Isobel Cockie was a witch, and one that "might not be suffered to live"? Other trials did Aberdeen entertain that year on this same wise and Christian count.

The _Complaynt of Scotland_, written in 1548, speaking of a company of musicians, says:— “The fyrst hed ane drone bagpipe, the next hed ane pipe made of ane bleddir and of ane reid, the third playit on ane trump, the feyerd on ane cornepipe, the fyfth playit on ane pipe made of ane grait horne, the sext playit on ane recorder, the sevint plait on ane fiddil, and the last on ane quhissel.” We cannot speak as to quality, but there was evidently no lack of quantity in these days.