The legal records pertaining to Jonnet Wilsoune offer a stark glimpse into the administrative machinery of the seventeenth-century Scottish witch trials. A resident of Kilbride in Ayrshire, Jonnet was caught within the expansive sweep of the 1658 judicial proceedings. On 31 March 1658, a porteous roll—a list of persons summoned to appear before the circuit courts—was issued, naming Jonnet among a broader group of individuals slated for trial. This legal summons mandated her presence to answer to the charge of witchcraft, a process that underscored the gravity and reach of the Scottish court system during this period.
By the time the court convened in Ayr on 6 April 1658 to formalize the proceedings, the resolution of Jonnet’s case had been determined by circumstances beyond the jurisdiction of the judges. The official register for the trial notes her status simply as "dead." Consequently, while the judicial machinery had initiated the legal process against her, Jonnet was never brought to trial, and the historical record preserves only this final notation of her passing alongside the administrative evidence of her summons.