In the summer of 1662, the judicial machinery of seventeenth-century Scotland turned its attention toward the parish of Inverkip in Renfrewshire, where a woman named Jonet Muir was formally accused of witchcraft. Her case, documented under the official classification C/EGD/1684, was registered on the 1st of August. At this time, Renfrewshire was an area particularly sensitized to allegations of diabolical influence, with local authorities operating under the statutory framework of the Witchcraft Act of 1563, which rendered the practice of sorcery a capital crime.
Following the initial registration of her case, Jonet was processed through the legal system under the trial reference T/JO/1012. While the archival records preserve the administrative fact of these proceedings, the specific narratives—the testimonies of neighbors, the nature of the alleged maleficium, or the ultimate verdict reached by the assize—remain absent from the surviving documentation. Consequently, Jonet exists in the historical record as a stark reminder of the breadth of the witch trials, representing one of the many individuals whose confrontation with the Scottish kirk and state sessions was recorded for posterity, yet whose personal experience remains obscured by the passage of time.