On November 20, 1628, Janet Unes, a fifty-year-old married woman residing in Middleton, Edinburgh, became the subject of a legal proceeding concerning the crime of witchcraft. Her case, documented as C/EGD/1034, reflects the communal nature of the accusations common to this era, as Janet was processed alongside seven other individuals. Notably, the archival records reveal that among those implicated alongside her was her own daughter, situating Janet within a broader network of familial suspicion that characterized many such investigations during this period of Scottish history.
On the day the proceedings commenced, Janet provided a formal confession to the authorities. While the subsequent trial records (T/JO/315) contain no surviving details regarding the specific proceedings or the final outcome of the prosecution, the documents confirm that her account was recorded on that same November day. Through these brief but significant entries, the archival record preserves the moment when Janet and her family were drawn into the intensive judicial scrutiny of the seventeenth-century Scottish courts.