On May 15, 1659, the records of the Scottish courts document the proceedings against William Fleck, a man residing in the parish of Humbie, located within the county of Haddington. The legal documentation associated with his case, indexed as C/EGD/2404, marks William’s encounter with the judicial machinery tasked with investigating charges of witchcraft during a period of heightened scrutiny in mid-seventeenth-century Scotland.
While the archival notes acknowledge that secondary research into this specific individual remains incomplete—noting that the project did not cross-reference the printed sources cited by historian Christina Larner—the entry formally preserves his name and residence within the administrative framework of the era. The record serves as a brief but significant point of evidence in the broader history of the Humbie witch trials, identifying William as a subject of legal scrutiny during the volatile socio-religious landscape of 1659.