In July 1662, Agnes Wauch, a resident of Lauder in the county of Berwick, became the subject of legal proceedings concerning the charge of witchcraft. Her case, documented under reference C/EGD/1556, emerged during a period of heightened judicial activity regarding perceived maleficium in the Scottish Borders. While the specific nature of the allegations brought against her remains absent from the surviving documentation, the gravity of the situation was underscored by the formal commencement of a trial process, recorded as T/JO/952.
Following her apprehension and the initiation of these proceedings, Agnes participated in a series of interrogations that culminated in the recording of a confession later that same month. This formal admission, dated July 1662, represents the final substantive entry in her historical file. While the trial notes themselves provide no further elaboration on the specific activities or pacts to which she may have confessed, the archive stands as a stark record of the administrative and judicial protocols applied to Agnes within the rigorous framework of seventeenth-century Scottish criminal law.