In the autumn of 1642, the legal machinery of Dumfries turned its attention to Isobel Adamsone, an inhabitant of the burgh whose life would soon be irrevocably altered by the judicial processes of the period. On 9 August 1642, Isobel stood trial within the town, a proceeding that culminated in a verdict of guilty. At this time, the Scottish courts were deeply engaged in the rigorous identification and prosecution of those suspected of diabolical influence, and the formal record of her appearance reflects the solemn gravity with which these proceedings were conducted by the local magistrates and legal authorities.
Following her conviction in August, the bureaucratic trail for Isobel concluded on 10 November 1642, as documented in the case register C/EGD/1280. While the surviving records remain sparse regarding the specific nature of the testimony presented against her or the exact circumstances of her daily life in Dumfries, they mark her place within a broader historical pattern of witchcraft prosecutions that defined 17th-century Scottish society. For Isobel, this sequence of administrative entries represents the formal closure of her case, recording her passage through a legal system that viewed her actions and status through the lens of early modern ecclesiastical and civil law.