In the winter of 1630, the administrative machinery of the Scottish kirk and state turned its attention toward the parish of Lochrutton in Dumfries. Among those documented during this period of heightened scrutiny was Agnes Kirkpatrick, a woman residing in the rugged terrain of the Hills of Lochretoun. On February 4, 1630, her name was formally entered into the judicial records under case reference C/EGD/1184, marking the commencement of a legal process that would see her moved from the local ecclesiastical oversight of the Dumfries presbytery into the broader theater of the Scottish courts.
The journey for Agnes continued as her case transitioned into the trial phase, cataloged under reference T/LA/691. While the archival fragments preserve little of the specific testimony or the nature of the allegations brought against her, the existence of these entries confirms that she was subjected to the rigorous standard judicial procedures of the era. The documentation of Agnes underscores the intersection of local community life in the Dumfries region and the reach of seventeenth-century legal institutions, leaving her story preserved within the formal registers of the Scottish witch trials.