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of Wariston. She would attract huge crowds who would come to hear and to watch as she underwent fits. It was said that her words were taken down in shorthand and distributed to the crowd.
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None of her prophesies appear to have been published. She is not recorded after 1638 but she is credited with improving the morale of the covenanters.
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would triumph over the King's Covenant. She had the support of Henry Rollock minister of
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She came to notice in September 1638 when she claimed that she knew that the
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prophet. Her father may have been the East Lothian minister of
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"A Godly Possession? Margaret Mitchelson and the Performance of Covenanted Identity"
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