Agnes Phenick was a twenty-five-year-old married woman residing in the village of Cousland, located within the parish of Cranston, Edinburgh. Her experience of the Scottish legal system began on October 6, 1630, when she was formally identified in the judicial records as part of a group of seven individuals accused of witchcraft. Her situation was particularly precarious, as her own parents had also been accused of the same offence; indeed, it was through the historical documentation of her parents that her own age was estimated by the authorities of the time.
The archival trail for Agnes ends abruptly with this collective accusation. While case file C/EGD/1216 confirms her inclusion among the group of seven, the subsequent trial records preserved under T/JO/334 contain no specific details regarding the proceedings, the nature of the charges, or the final outcome for her. As such, she remains a figure defined by her familial connections and her brief, recorded appearance in the seventeenth-century court system, reflecting the broader patterns of communal accusations that marked the period.