In September 1661, Margret Moffatt, an indweller of the parish of Spott in Haddington, became the subject of formal legal scrutiny as part of the broader wave of witch trials that permeated the region during that period. Identified in the records as a woman of middling socioeconomic status, Margret was brought before the authorities to answer for the grave charge of witchcraft. Her case, documented under reference C/EGD/1386, reflects the administrative rigor applied to such investigations in mid-seventeenth-century Scotland, as local officials and the judiciary processed accusations that were increasingly prevalent within the community.
The proceedings moved with notable swiftness, as evidenced by the judicial records dated the 9th of September 1661. Following the initial accusation, Margret provided a confession later that same month. While the specific nature of the allegations—the precise "diabolical" acts or maleficium she was purported to have committed—remains absent from the surviving trial notes (T/JO/806), the existence of a formal confession indicates that the legal process followed the established protocol of the era. Margret stands in the historical record as one of the many individuals whose lives were caught in the intense institutional mechanisms of the Spott witch hunts.