In August 1649, Margaret Murray was drawn into the turbulent judicial proceedings occurring within the parish of Humbie in Haddington. Amidst a period of heightened scrutiny regarding the supernatural, Margaret was one of six individuals from the locality identified as subjects of interest by the authorities. Her involvement in these proceedings reached a critical juncture on the 15th of August, when she provided a formal confession to those overseeing the investigation.
This admission was followed the next day, on the 16th of August, by her formal registration in the official legal records under case file C/EGD/1625. While the specific nature of her testimony or the particular charges leveled against her remain absent from the surviving documentation, Margaret’s case was processed through the established judicial channels of the time, eventually resulting in the trial documented under reference T/JO/128. Her experience serves as a testament to the structured, if austere, legal processes that characterized the pursuit of witchcraft in mid-seventeenth-century Scotland.