In the spring of 1661, the ecclesiastical and legal authorities of Edinburgh turned their attention to the coastal settlement of Fisherrow, located within the parish of Inveresk. Among those identified by the commissioners was Jonnet Douglas, a married woman residing in the community. On May 22, 1661, records indicate that Jonnet was formally processed under the legal framework governing witchcraft cases during this intense period of judicial scrutiny, marking the commencement of a process that would ultimately lead to her appearance before the High Court of Justiciary.
The subsequent proceedings against Jonnet are documented under trial reference T/JO/1823. As the legal mechanisms of the seventeenth-century Scottish state took hold, the details of her case became a matter of formal record, situating her experience within the broader wave of trials that swept through the Lothians during the mid-seventeenth century. While the specific nature of the allegations brought against Jonnet remains preserved within these archival files, her journey through the court system underscores the systematic reach of the judicial authorities in Inveresk at that time.