In the year 1662, Agnes Allene, a resident of the Crook of Devon within the parish of Fossoway and Tullibole, became the subject of a judicial proceeding concerning the charge of witchcraft. Her case, documented under the reference C/EGD/1711, places her at the heart of the intense period of legal scrutiny that characterized mid-seventeenth-century Perthshire. As a member of this local community, Agnes was drawn into the ecclesiastical and civil machinery tasked with investigating supernatural allegations, a process that was deeply embedded in the social and legal fabric of Restoration-era Scotland.
The records for Agnes reflect the formal administrative burden of the Scottish witch trials, where local inhabitants were subjected to rigorous scrutiny by kirk sessions and civil magistrates. While the surviving documentation for her case remains brief, its existence within the official register confirms her inclusion in the broader wave of prosecutions that swept through the Fossoway and Tullibole region during the early 1660s. Agnes remains a distinct figure in the historical record of this period, representing the intersection of individual experience and the systemic legal interventions that defined the witchcraft investigations of the seventeenth century.