In the spring of 1649, Agnes Scobie, a married woman residing in the settlement of Grangepannes within the parish of Carriden, Linlithgow, found herself drawn into the judicial machinery of the Scottish witch trials. On May 11, 1649, legal proceedings were formally initiated against her under case reference C/EGD/1609. The climate of the era, marked by intense socio-religious scrutiny, placed Agnes at the center of a local investigation that quickly moved from suspicion to the courtroom.
The trial, recorded under T/LA/1953, culminated in a structured legal process that prioritized the extraction of testimony. Throughout these proceedings, Agnes provided a formal confession, which was duly documented by the authorities. While the specific content of her admission remains a matter of historical record preserved in the archives, her case stands as a representative example of the mid-seventeenth-century prosecutions in the Linlithgow region, illustrating the gravity with which the Scottish courts approached such accusations.