In the late autumn of 1649, Jonet Baird, a resident of Keith Marischall in Haddington, became caught in the mechanisms of the Scottish judicial system during a period of heightened intensity regarding witchcraft prosecutions. On 28 November 1649, she provided a formal confession, a critical document that initiated the legal proceedings against her. While the surviving documentation remains brief, this confession served as the primary instrument for her subsequent arraignment before the authorities.
By 4 December 1649, Jonet was formally listed within the judicial records of the Court of Justiciary (C/EGD/2063). She did not face this ordeal in isolation; the records indicate that she was processed alongside four other individuals. This collective grouping suggests that her case was part of a broader local inquiry, characteristic of the judicial practices of the mid-seventeenth century. While the specific nature of the accusations levied against Jonet remains obscured by the limitations of the archival record, her name stands as a permanent fixture in the historical register of the Haddington trials.