In the spring of 1629, the legal records of Lanark preserved the case of Margaret Wilson, a married woman residing within the burgh. On April 15, 1629, her situation escalated into a formal matter for the courts, as indicated by the entry in the Register of the Privy Council or court records under case number C/EGD/1102. The transition of her case from initial accusation to the rigors of the judicial process is confirmed by the subsequent inclusion of her name in the trial records, indexed under references T/JO/2172 and T/LA/710.
Though the specific nature of the allegations brought against Margaret remains unstated in these administrative fragments, her trial reflects the standard procedures of early modern Scottish jurisprudence concerning witchcraft. As a married woman caught within the machinery of the law in Lanark, she faced a system that treated such accusations with profound seriousness. These documents serve as the remaining testimony of her journey through the seventeenth-century legal apparatus, marking her experience among the hundreds of individuals whose lives were scrutinized during this period of intense judicial activity.