In May 1662, Margret Edison, a resident of Clova in the parish of Cortachy, Forfar, became the subject of a legal inquiry regarding the crime of witchcraft. The records indicate that the judicial process moved with notable efficiency during this period, as evidenced by a formal confession being recorded within the same month that the case against her was formally opened. This rapid progression reflects the administrative urgency often associated with such proceedings in seventeenth-century Scotland.
Following the recording of her confession, Margret was subjected to a trial later that year, specifically dated 7 May 1662. The documentation preserved under the reference T/JO/926 confirms the existence of these formal proceedings, though the specific testimonies and individual narratives that comprised her defense or prosecution remain unrecorded in the surviving trial notes. Consequently, while the timeline of Margret’s legal engagement—from the initial confession to the eventual trial—is clearly delineated in the archival record, the precise circumstances and outcomes of her case remain obscured by the brevity of the surviving judicial documents.