Grissell Jaffray was a woman of middling socioeconomic status residing in Dundee, Forfar, during the mid-seventeenth century. Married to a local maltman, she occupied a position within the town’s established mercantile fabric. The historical record indicates that her involvement with the judicial authorities reached a critical juncture in the autumn of 1669, when her case (C/EGD/1735) was formally processed on the 11th of November.
Following the initial registration of her case, Grissell was subjected to the formal machinery of the Scottish legal system. While the surviving trial notes (T/JO/648) do not provide the specific testimonies or the particular allegations levied against her, they document that her circumstances resulted in a trial during this era of heightened scrutiny. Her experience remains a part of the documented legal history of Dundee, reflecting the administrative processes applied to those accused of witchcraft in the years preceding the formal cessation of such prosecutions in 1736.