In the summer of 1630, the judicial machinery of Dumfries turned its focus toward Agnes Weir. On the first of June, Agnes was formally brought before the authorities to answer to the charge of witchcraft, a process documented under case reference C/EGD/1219. As a resident of the burgh of Dumfries, her appearance before the court placed her within a wider landscape of seventeenth-century Scottish legal proceedings, where concerns regarding maleficium and perceived supernatural intervention were rigorously addressed by local officials and ministers.
The subsequent legal journey for Agnes proceeded to trial under reference T/LA/763. Within the archival framework of the Scottish witch trials, this designation indicates that her case moved beyond the initial accusation into the formal phase of judicial examination. While the surviving records capture the administrative path of the proceedings against Agnes, they remain a stark reflection of the period's anxieties and the specific regulatory mechanisms employed to adjudicate matters of alleged witchcraft in early modern Dumfries.