In the year 1695, a woman identified in the historical record only as McQuicken found herself caught within the mechanisms of the Scottish judicial system amidst the waning years of the intense witch-hunting era. A resident of Inverness and a married woman, she was formally processed under the case reference C/EGD/1771. While the precise details of the accusations leveled against her remain obscured by the limitations of the surviving documentation, her inclusion in the criminal records of the period reflects the broader social and legal pressures exerted upon women of the late seventeenth century.
The scant nature of the documentation regarding McQuicken underscores the fragmentary reality of many such historical cases. Although a reference exists in the secondary literature—noted by researchers as a printed source—the specifics of her testimony, the nature of the alleged maleficium, or the ultimate verdict of the court remain elusive. Consequently, McQuicken persists in the archives not as a fully realized biographical subject, but as a formal entry in a long administrative history of trials that sought to reconcile communal anxieties through the rigors of the Scottish law.