In the spring of 1662, the legal machinery of the Scottish witch trials reached the coastal parish of Eyemouth in Berwickshire, ensnaring a woman named Margret Jonstoun. As the early modern judicial system mobilized, Margret was formally brought into the scrutiny of the courts. By February of that year, the process had progressed to the point where she provided a formal confession, a critical and often terminal component of the legal proceedings during this period of heightened religious and social anxiety.
Following this deposition, the case against Margret moved toward a formal trial under the reference T/JO/887. While the surviving documentation of her specific testimony is limited, the records indicate that her case was processed through the established judicial channels of the time, culminating in an official court entry on March 4, 1662. Despite the stark nature of the archival record, which preserves only the administrative timeline of her interrogation and trial, Margret stands as a testament to the rigorous, systematic, and often fatal reach of the witch-hunting commissions that defined the seventeenth-century Scottish landscape.