In 1628, the legal records of Forfarshire document the case of Agnes Meldrum, a resident of the parish of Monifieth. Agnes appears in the historical register under reference C/EGD/2240, marking her involvement in the formal judicial processes that defined the period of intensive witch-hunting in early modern Scotland. At this time, such proceedings were often initiated by local kirk sessions or regional authorities, reflecting the intersection of religious authority and civil law that characterized the seventeenth-century Scottish legal landscape.
Beyond her residence and the year of her trial, little remains of the specific narrative surrounding the accusations leveled against Agnes. The extant documentation serves as a stark reminder of the archival fragments that constitute the history of these trials, where individuals were caught within the machinery of the state and church. Agnes represents one of the many lives touched by the statutory framework of 1563, leaving behind only the administrative trace of her confrontation with the judicial system of Monifieth.