In the autumn of 1661, the administrative machinery of the Scottish witch trials turned its attention to Katherin Jonstoun, a resident of the parish of Ormiston in Haddington. On the 6th of September, the formal recording of her case—catalogued under reference C/EGD/1394—marked the commencement of legal proceedings against her within the local judicial framework. At this time, the surrounding region was grappling with a heightened period of investigative activity, as authorities sought to address allegations of diabolism that had proliferated across the Lowlands.
Little remains to illuminate the specifics of the accusations brought against Katherin or the mechanics of her defense. The subsequent trial records, filed under T/JO/817, provide only a procedural notation without surviving details regarding the testimony of witnesses or the final verdict rendered by the court. Her case remains a fragmentary but significant entry in the broader historical narrative of seventeenth-century East Lothian, representing one of the many lives touched by the intense ecclesiastical and civil scrutiny of the era.