In November 1646, the legal machinery of the Scottish witch trials turned toward Margaret Murray, a resident of Spynie, near Elgin. According to the extant judicial records, the proceedings against her were swift and formal. On November 26, 1646, Margaret was officially entered into the records under case file C/EGD/2362, marking the beginning of her trial process in a period when the judicial scrutiny of alleged supernatural practice was intensifying across the north of Scotland.
The historical record for Margaret is punctuated by a confession documented earlier that same month. In November 1646, she provided a formal statement to the authorities, a pivotal event preserved in the trial records under T/JO/1264. While the specific content of her testimony remains brief in the archival summary, the existence of this confession confirms that Margaret was subjected to the rigorous interrogation methods characteristic of seventeenth-century Scottish justice. Following the recording of her admission, the administrative steps of her case were finalized, concluding the brief yet consequential legal record of her life and trial in Spynie.