In December 1628, the judicial machinery of Lauder, in the county of Berwick, turned its attention to Katherine Browne. Recorded in the legal annals as case C/EGD/1064, Katherine was identified as a resident of the Lauder area, a town that would become infamous in later decades for its involvement in the intense Scottish witch-hunts. On the 4th of December, formal proceedings were initiated against her, marking the beginning of the legal process that would see her name entered into the records of the local courts.
The trial, indexed under reference T/LA/608, stands as the final point of documentation for Katherine. While the surviving records are sparse, they capture the moment she was pulled into the formal apparatus of the Scottish justice system during a period of heightened scrutiny regarding witchcraft. The movement from the initial entry of her case to the subsequent trial reflects the methodical, albeit devastating, nature of the seventeenth-century Scottish legal process, leaving Katherine as a subject of the historical record amidst the broader landscape of the Berwickshire witch trials.