In 1700, the legal records of Perthshire mark the inclusion of Jonnet Buttar, a woman residing in the parish of Kinloch, into the judicial machinery of the Scottish witch trials. While the archival entry for case C/EGD/1945 remains brief, it situates Jonnet within a period when local authorities were still actively processing accusations of maleficium or diabolical association. Her documentation serves as a precise, albeit sparse, testament to the administrative efforts made by officials in Kinloch to catalog those suspected of supernatural transgression at the turn of the eighteenth century.
Although the surviving records for Jonnet are limited, they provide a vital link to the broader sociopolitical landscape of early modern Scotland. As the judicial records do not elaborate on the specific charges leveled against her, she remains a figure defined by the formal procedures of the period’s legal institutions. Her case, documented alongside others in the regional research, stands as a quiet but significant piece of historical evidence reflecting how the lives of individual parishioners were intersected and recorded by the Scottish courts during this era of intense scrutiny.