In March 1644, the legal machinery of seventeenth-century Scotland turned toward Marioun Little, a resident of Queensferry in Linlithgow. The judicial process against her moved with a rapid, fatal momentum, beginning with a formal denunciation on March 27, 1644, by Ephraim Melvill. This accusation was not an isolated incident; records indicate that Marioun was already entangled in a web of contemporary suspicion, having been identified as a "known witch" by Isobel Young and further denounced by Margaret Young.
Under the weight of these mounting accusations, a confession was secured from Marioun during that same month. While the specific content of her testimony remains lost to history, the procedural outcome was definitive. Following the trial proceedings recorded under references T/JO/523 and T/JO/544, the court reached a verdict that led to her execution in 1644. In accordance with the statutes governing such convictions, Marioun was put to death by burning.