In June 1662, the legal machinery of the Scottish state focused its attention on Mary Nein Allaster Vic Conchy, a resident of Buntoit, located within the parish of Kiltarlity and Convinth in Inverness. The records categorize her case under the administrative identifiers C/EGD/1576 and T/JO/977, situating her experience within the broader, often volatile context of mid-seventeenth-century judicial practice. While specific procedural details regarding the trial itself remain absent from the extant archives, the documentation confirms that the legal process was initiated during the summer months of that year.
Mary’s experience reached a definitive juncture that same month, when she provided a formal confession to the authorities. Under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council and local court officials, the deposition of Mary serves as the primary surviving evidence of her interaction with the legal system. Following this confession on 26 June 1662, the archival trail for Mary concludes, leaving her brief appearance in the records as a stark representative of the many individuals whose lives were intersected by the witchcraft statutes of the early modern period.