On November 6, 1629, Agnes Rannick of Clerkington, situated near Edinburgh, became the subject of legal proceedings concerning the crime of witchcraft. Her case, documented under the reference C/EGD/1147, indicates that she was not summoned to face these grave allegations alone; rather, she was formally accused in conjunction with one other individual. This shared indictment suggests a communal dimension to the suspicions leveled against her, a common feature in the judicial landscape of early seventeenth-century Scotland.
Despite the initiation of these proceedings, the historical record preserved in T/JO/324 remains frustratingly sparse regarding the specific nature of the charges or the eventual outcome of the trial. While contemporary court registers often captured the depositions of witnesses or the confessions of the accused, the archival traces for Agnes remain limited to these brief administrative entries. Consequently, while her presence in the legal system is confirmed, the details of the evidence brought against her and the final disposition of her case remain lost to the intervening centuries.