In the early months of 1662, the judicial machinery of the Scottish witch trials reached the Isle of Bute to address the case of a woman identified only as the daughter of "black Heu" Stewart. The archival records, filed under case C/EGD/1536, document her appearance before the authorities on January 28, 1662. Little survives of her personal life beyond this familial connection to her father, Hew, whose descriptor suggests he was perhaps a notable or distinct figure within the local community.
The legal proceedings against the daughter progressed through the Scottish justice system, culminating in the trial recorded under reference T/JO/1907. Her case remains a fragment of the broader seventeenth-century effort to identify and prosecute those suspected of maleficium during a period of heightened socio-religious anxiety. While the specific charges brought against her are not preserved in the extant documentation, her experience reflects the formal intersection of Bute’s local population with the rigorous ecclesiastical and state oversight that defined the era’s approach to witchcraft.