In the late summer of 1628, the judicial records of Peebles document the legal proceedings initiated against Marioun George. A married woman residing within the burgh, Marioun became the subject of a formal inquiry on the 21st of August, a period during which the Scottish legal system was increasingly focused on the prosecution of witchcraft. While the surviving documentation for case C/EGD/2238 is brief, it marks her entry into the official registers of the era’s criminal courts.
The historical record for Marioun remains limited, noting her status as a married resident of the Peebles community before her appearance in the records. Despite the sparse nature of these remaining details, the archival evidence confirms that she was subject to the mechanisms of the Scottish state during a time of intense administrative scrutiny regarding suspected supernatural activity. Her case remains a documented instance of the legal processes that governed early modern Peebles.