In May 1662, Jean King of Inverkip, Renfrew, became the subject of a legal proceeding under the Witchcraft Act of 1563. The archival records for her case, indexed as C/EGD/1523, indicate that she was brought before the authorities during a period when concerns regarding diabolical activity were particularly acute within the region. Following her initial apprehension, Jean underwent a process of formal interrogation, resulting in a recorded confession dated May 1662.
While the specific contents of her testimony remain lost to time, the subsequent trial notes, cataloged under T/JO/924, contain no further descriptive details regarding the court's final determination or the nature of her alleged crimes. As such, Jean remains a figure defined by the brief, clinical entries of the legal system—a woman whose life intersected with the rigorous judicial apparatus of seventeenth-century Scotland, leaving behind only the evidentiary trail of her confession and the subsequent procedural documentation.