In the winter of 1630, Agnes Boyd, a resident of Paisley in the county of Renfrew, found herself at the centre of a formal legal investigation into the practice of witchcraft. The documentation preserved in case C/EGD/1254 marks the commencement of proceedings against her during a period when such inquiries were becoming increasingly structured within the Scottish legal system. Agnes was held in custody during the autumn, and by November 1630, officials had secured a formal confession from her, a critical component in the judicial processes of the early seventeenth century.
The progress of these proceedings moved steadily toward a conclusion in the final weeks of the year. Following the recorded confession, the trial—indexed as T/LA/799—reached its culmination on 14 December 1630. While the precise nature of the accusations brought against Agnes remains obscured by the limitations of the extant archive, the progression of her case from initial confession to a scheduled trial date illustrates the rigorous administrative path that characterized witchcraft prosecutions in Paisley during this era.