In the spring of 1629, the legal machinery of the Scottish state focused its attention upon Helene Simsoun, a resident of the settlement of Craignuik in Lanark. On the 15th of April, Helene was formally recorded under case number C/EGD/1114, marking the commencement of proceedings that would draw her into the judicial processes governing the mid-seventeenth-century pursuit of witchcraft.
Following this initial registration, the progression of the case involved multiple formal judicial venues. Records indicate that Helene was subject to at least two distinct trial procedures, documented under references T/JO/2184 and T/LA/715. These entries serve as the surviving historical markers of her experience within the Lanarkshire courts during a period when such trials were becoming an increasingly structured feature of local and national governance.