The historical record for Margaret Anderson, a resident of Haddington, locates her within the judicial machinery of seventeenth-century Scotland during a period of heightened concern regarding witchcraft. On February 2, 1658, Margaret was formally processed under case file C/EGD/237. Her involvement with the legal system culminated on that same day in Edinburgh, where her trial, documented under reference T/LA/1948, was convened.
Despite her presence on the index of the High Court of Justiciary, archival evidence concerning Margaret remains notably incomplete. While she is formally listed in the court’s indices, she does not appear within the extant books of adjournal, the official records where the proceedings and final verdicts of such trials were typically inscribed. Consequently, the specific nature of the charges brought against her and the ultimate resolution of her case at the High Court remain absent from the surviving judicial chronicle.