In the summer of 1649, Margaret Hendirsoun, a woman of noble status residing in the burgh of Inverkeithing in Fife, became the subject of a legal inquiry recorded as case C/EGD/1809. Her involvement with the Scottish judicial system during this volatile period of the seventeenth century led to her appearance before authorities in Edinburgh, where her trial (T/JO/1674) was formally convened.
The historical record also references a secondary trial (T/LA/1553) associated with Margaret, marking her involvement in complex legal proceedings that spanned several years. These archival fragments place her squarely within the institutional frameworks of the mid-seventeenth century, documenting the official state processes applied to individuals of her social standing during the prolonged era of the Scottish witch trials.