In the summer of 1662, the village of Dunning in Perthshire became the setting for the judicial proceedings against Jonet Toyes. On 28 July, Jonet was brought before the authorities to answer to the accusation of witchcraft, an event recorded within the archives as case C/EGD/1510. While the surviving documentation does not elaborate on the specific testimonies or the nature of the evidence presented against her, the legal machinery of the period moved with a definitive and final momentum.
The trial, cataloged as T/JO/942, concluded with a verdict of guilty. Following this judgment, Jonet was sentenced to death. The historical records confirm that the sentence was carried out, and Jonet was executed shortly thereafter. Despite the gravity of the outcome, the trial notes remain silent on the particulars of her defense or the specific incidents that led to her apprehension, leaving her case as a stark testament to the judicial climate of mid-seventeenth-century Scotland.