In the spring of 1662, the legal machinery of Scotland turned toward the parish of Findo Gask in Perthshire, where Jonet Bining, a resident of the small settlement of Clathimore, became the subject of an official inquiry. On May 7, 1662, Jonet was formally processed under case file C/EGD/1515, marking the commencement of a legal trajectory that would lead her to the courthouse.
Despite the bureaucratic thoroughness of the period, the extant records concerning Jonet remain stark and elusive. While her name, residence, and the date of her initial case registration are preserved in the archives, the subsequent trial notes—catalogued under T/JO/937—contain no surviving details regarding the specific accusations or the ultimate outcome of the proceedings. Consequently, the narrative of Jonet survives only as a fragment of the broader judicial landscape of seventeenth-century Scotland, reflecting the silent, incomplete nature of many such records from the era of the witch trials.