In the summer of 1650, the legal machinery of the Scottish witch trials turned its attention to Margaret Douglas, a resident of the burgh of Kirkcaldy in Fife. On July 20, Margaret was formally processed under case number C/EGD/2541, an event that placed her within the volatile religious and judicial climate of mid-seventeenth-century Scotland. Her presence in the court record marks her as one of the many individuals caught in the intersection of local suspicion and the formalized ecclesiastical and secular anxieties of the period.
Following her appearance before the authorities, the subsequent judicial proceedings under trial reference T/JO/1187 concluded without a definitive conviction. The court returned a verdict of "Not Proven," a specific outcome in the Scottish legal system that distinguished her case from both a full acquittal and a guilty sentence. Having faced the scrutiny of the Kirkcaldy courts, Margaret was released from the immediate threat of execution, leaving her name inscribed in the historical register as one of the many who stood trial during this tumultuous era.