In the summer of 1628, Agnes Liddell, a resident of the coastal burgh of Prestonpans in East Lothian, became the subject of formal legal scrutiny regarding allegations of witchcraft. On July 15, 1628, her case was officially recorded under the reference C/EGD/1019, marking the commencement of a process that would ultimately draw her into the jurisdiction of the capital.
Following the initial documentation of the case in her home parish, Agnes was transferred to Edinburgh to stand trial. Under the reference T/LA/491, the legal proceedings were conducted within the city, reflecting the centralisation of such sensitive judicial matters during this period of Scottish history. These records constitute the extent of the surviving documentation concerning her experience within the seventeenth-century judicial system.