In 1657, Agnes Robert, a resident of the royal burgh of Linlithgow, became caught within the judicial machinery of the Scottish witch trials. During this period, the legal pursuit of witchcraft was characterized by intense local scrutiny and the formal oversight of the state, as records of such cases were frequently funneled into the administrative processes of the central authorities. Agnes was formally identified in the legal registers of the time, appearing under the classification C/EGD/233 within the historical documentation preserved by the Scottish Record Office.
Despite the meticulous record-keeping practices of the seventeenth-century Scottish judiciary, the specific details regarding the accusations brought against Agnes remain elusive. Modern efforts to examine the original case files held by the National Archives of Scotland have been unable to locate the supporting documents, leaving the precise nature of the charges—and the eventual outcome of her proceedings—unconfirmed. Consequently, Agnes remains a name within the broader, often fragmented, narrative of the period’s legal history, serving as a reminder of the many individuals whose encounters with the witch-hunting apparatus of the 1650s are now defined by these incomplete archival remnants.