On September 14, 1649, the legal machinery of seventeenth-century Scotland turned toward Janet Gray, a resident of Berwick, as she became the subject of a formal process documented under the case reference C/EGD/1646. The proceedings against her occurred during a period of heightened judicial activity regarding witchcraft, a time when local kirk sessions and civil authorities were increasingly vigilant in their identification of suspected practitioners of maleficium.
Following the initial filing of her case, Janet was brought to trial under the designation T/LA/1981. While the archival records preserve these specific administrative identifiers, they offer a stark testament to the institutional nature of the judicial pursuit she faced. The documentation remains a vital part of the historical corpus concerning the legal mechanisms employed in the mid-seventeenth century to address accusations of witchcraft within the Scottish Borders.