In the late summer of 1629, Agnes Falconer, a resident of the coastal town of Eyemouth in Berwickshire, found herself drawn into the judicial machinery of the Scottish witch trials. The process against her commenced on 27 July 1629, when she was formally denounced as a practitioner of witchcraft by Margaret Loche, a woman who had already confessed to the crime. Such denunciations were a frequent feature of the period, as the testimony of one accused individual often served to implicate others, pulling residents into a widening web of legal scrutiny within their local communities.
Following this initial denouncement, the legal proceedings against Agnes moved forward through the local courts, as evidenced by the series of trial records cataloged under the case reference C/EGD/1135. Over the subsequent months, Agnes was subjected to the formal judicial process, with documentation detailing her appearances in court on 5 September 1629 and subsequent records maintained in the legal archives (T/LA/139 and T/LA/153). These surviving administrative entries mark the progression of her case through the early modern Scottish justice system, documenting the steps taken by authorities in Eyemouth to address the accusations levied against her.