Scotland in the early modern period other towns above 10,000 by the end of the period were Glasgow with 32,000, Aberdeen with around 16,000 and Dundee with 12,000. In late medieval Scotland there is evidence of occasional prosecutions of individuals for causing harm through witchcraft, but these may have been declining in the first half of the sixteenth century. In the aftermath of the initial Reformation settlement, Parliament passed the Witchcraft Act 1563, similar to that passed in England one year earlier, which made witchcraft a capital crime. Despite the fact that Scotland probably had about one quarter of the population of England, it would have
Scotland, South Dakota About 7.4% of families and 11.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 14.1% of those under age 18 and 14.0% of those age 65 or over. Scotland School District 4-3 operates the town's school. Scotland, South Dakota Scotland is a city in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 841. Scotland was laid out in 1879. Scottish immigrants named it for their native country of Scotland. Scotland is located at (43.149108, -97.718460). South Dakota Highway 25 runs north-south through the town. According to the United States Census Bureau,