In the summer of 1706, George Rattray, a resident of Inverness, faced the culmination of a protracted legal process that had shadowed his life for over a year. The administrative handling of his case was marked by significant procedural delays; although a verdict was initially required to be reported to the Privy Council by March 1705, this requirement was never fulfilled within the prescribed timeframe. Despite these irregularities in the timeline, the judicial process continued, leading to his trial on June 25, 1706.
Following the proceedings in court, George was found guilty of the charges brought against him. On July 16, 1706, the court delivered its final sentence, decreeing that he be executed. The case was formally closed in the official records on December 28, 1706, marking the end of the legal tenure of a man caught within the shifting bureaucratic and judicial mechanisms of late seventeenth-century Scotland.