In the spring of 1658, the judicial machinery of the Scottish state focused its attention on Jonet Grahame, a woman residing in the parish of Kilbride, Ayrshire. Her case, documented under reference C/EGD/252, reflects the procedural intensity of the witch trials during this period. On the 31st of March, a Porteous roll—a formal register of indictments—summoned Jonet along with a wider group of accused individuals to appear before the court. This mandate ensured that she was brought to answer for the charges laid against her within the jurisdictional framework of the time.
By the 6th of April 1658, Jonet stood before the Ayr court to face trial. The archival record, specifically T/LA/1598, confirms that her appearance was part of a coordinated legal process involving multiple Porteous rolls, which functioned to manage the processing of those cited for witchcraft. While Jonet appears in the scholarly compilations of Christina Larner, she is notably absent from the full set of three Porteous rolls associated with these proceedings, marking her case as a distinct entry within the wider judicial efforts of 1658. Following this appearance, the historical record leaves her outcome unstated, preserving only the formal intersection of her life with the legal apparatus of the seventeenth-century kirk and state.