In the late autumn of 1649, Jeane Olipher, a resident of the Scottish border town of Jedburgh, found herself drawn into the judicial machinery of the seventeenth-century witch trials. On the 20th of November, her case was officially processed under the reference C/EGD/2045, marking the commencement of formal proceedings against her. The atmosphere in Roxburgh at this time was one of intense scrutiny regarding matters of supernatural influence, and Jeane was soon subjected to the rigorous legal examinations characteristic of the period.
The subsequent trial, recorded under the reference T/LA/2079, moved beyond mere accusation into the documentation of Jeane's own testimony. Within the surviving archival evidence, there remains a formal record of a confession attributed to her. While the specific content of these admissions is not detailed in the surviving fragments, the existence of a recorded confession was a pivotal element in the judicial process of the era, serving as the primary instrument for the court to conclude its inquiry into her activities in Jedburgh.