In September 1649, a woman named Jeane Walker, a resident of the parish of Carriden in Linlithgow, found herself at the centre of a formal legal inquiry. Her case, documented in the records of the judiciary as C/EGD/1637, unfolded during a period of intense preoccupation with witchcraft across the Scottish Lowlands. Following the initiation of proceedings on 7 September, Jeane was subjected to the standard judicial processes of the era, eventually appearing before the court in a trial designated T/LA/1975.
Central to the legal proceedings against her was a formal confession. In the context of seventeenth-century Scottish justice, such a statement formed the primary pillar of the prosecution’s case, moving the trial from suspicion to a structured accounting of her alleged actions. While the specific content of her testimony remains confined to the archival documentation of her confession, this record stands as the definitive account of her encounter with the criminal courts of Linlithgow, marking the conclusion of the case brought against Jeane in the mid-seventeenth century.