The legal proceedings against Agnes Wallace, a resident of Ayton in the county of Berwick, commenced in the early weeks of 1629. According to the extant records of the Court of Justiciary (case reference C/EGD/1081), her arrest took place amidst the intensified judicial scrutiny that characterized the period of the Scottish witch trials. As was customary for the legal administration of the era, the state maintained meticulous documentation of her encounter with the law, marking the initiation of a formal judicial process against her on the 20th of January.
The subsequent trial (T/LA/625) placed Agnes within the rigorous framework of the seventeenth-century Scottish justice system, where the accusation of witchcraft required systematic documentation by local authorities. While the specific nature of the allegations brought against Agnes remains confined to the administrative ledger, the trial record serves as a testament to the intersection of civil and ecclesiastical authority in Berwick at the time. Her case remains preserved as part of the formal history of the Scottish courts, reflecting the legal mechanisms applied to those accused under the Witchcraft Act of 1563.