In November 1649, Jonet Young, a resident of the burgh of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders, became the subject of legal proceedings under the jurisdiction of the local courts. Her case, documented in the records of the Justiciary Court as C/EGD/2050, unfolded during a period of heightened concern regarding witchcraft across the Scottish Lowlands. Following her initial accusation, the judicial process moved toward trial under the designation T/LA/2077, marking her transition from a private suspect to a formal defendant within the seventeenth-century legal apparatus.
As the proceedings advanced, Jonet provided a formal confession, a central component of the evidentiary record preserved for her trial. While the specific nature of the allegations remains encapsulated within the surviving documentation, the existence of this recorded testimony indicates that Jonet’s case was brought to a definitive procedural conclusion. Her experience remains a documented part of the administrative history of the Jedburgh witch trials, reflecting the rigorous, legalistic framework through which such accusations were processed in the mid-seventeenth century.