On November 6, 1649, Margaret Wilsone, a widow residing in the burgh of Peebles, became the subject of a formal judicial inquiry concerning allegations of witchcraft. Her case, documented under reference C/EGD/2024, emerged during a period of heightened sensitivity within the Scottish legal system regarding supernatural maleficium. As a widow, Margaret occupied a precarious social position in seventeenth-century Peebles, where the scrutiny of the local authorities often focused on women living outside the immediate supervision of a husband.
Following the initiation of these proceedings, Margaret was subjected to the formal legal process recorded under trial reference T/LA/2048. Within the context of the mid-seventeenth-century Scottish witch trials, such an entry marks the transition of the accusation from local suspicion to official examination by the commissioners or the courts. While the specific nature of the charges brought against her remains confined to the administrative records of the period, the trial of Margaret stands as part of the broader legal activity that defined the judicial landscape of the Peeblesshire region during the late 1640s.