In the spring of 1597, the judicial machinery of Aberdeen turned its attention toward Christen Miller. Her case, documented under the reference C/EGD/2143, saw her formally processed within the city’s legal system on April 15 of that year. At a time when the Scottish authorities were intensifying their scrutiny of those suspected of maleficium, Christen was brought before the magistrates to account for her actions and reputation within the community.
The subsequent legal proceedings, recorded in trial documents T/JO/1493, mark the formal intersection of Christen’s life with the state’s inquisitorial practices. While the brevity of these records reflects the stark bureaucratic nature of the period’s witch-hunting apparatus, they confirm that Christen was subjected to the full weight of the judicial process during a particularly volatile era of Scottish history. Her experience serves as a testament to the administrative rigor applied to the accused in late sixteenth-century Aberdeen.