In 1614, the ecclesiastical and legal machinery of St Andrews, Fife, turned its focus toward a woman named Agnes Anstruther. While the archival evidence regarding her specific testimony remains sparse, her case is preserved within the judicial records of the period (C/EGD/2206). It is historically possible that Agnes is the same individual as Agnes Anderson, who appeared in earlier records from 1603, suggesting a lingering association with the legal processes that defined early modern Scottish life during this era of intensified witch-hunting.
The sparse nature of the documentation reflects the fragmented reality of surviving records from the seventeenth century. Agnes remains a silhouette within the archive, an individual caught in the transition between historical uncertainty and the formal scrutiny of the Fife courts. Her case, while noted by researchers, underscores the difficulty of tracing the lives of women who, despite leaving a mark in the legal register of St Andrews, are now known to us only through the briefest of administrative notations.