In early January 1700, Agnes Desk, a resident of Kilraine in the parish of Killearnan, Ross, found herself subject to the formal legal machinery of the Scottish witch trials. The surviving documentation, preserved under case reference C/EGD/1795, marks the beginning of a process that brought her before the authorities during a period when such proceedings remained a potent feature of local judicial life.
The legal trajectory for Agnes moved swiftly through the ecclesiastical and secular courts of the region. Following the initiation of her case, the trial process—documented in record T/LA/1802—concluded on 2 January 1700. The notes associated with these proceedings indicate that Agnes was convicted, effectively closing the brief and harrowing chapter of her entanglement with the criminal justice system of the era.