In the autumn of 1644, Agnes Bennettie, a resident of the coastal burgh of Dysart in Fife, found herself caught within the mechanisms of the Scottish judicial system during a period of heightened concern regarding witchcraft. Her case, documented under reference C/EGD/2549, reached the formal courts on the 9th of October, marking a significant turn in her life as she faced the legal scrutiny of the era.
The subsequent proceedings against Agnes were conducted under the trial reference T/JO/1195. As the case moved through the local and central legal channels of seventeenth-century Scotland, Agnes remained the subject of an investigation that would define her interactions with the ecclesiastical and civil authorities of Dysart. The surviving records of these proceedings stand as a somber testament to the formal processes that governed the lives and reputations of individuals during this tumultuous period in Fife’s history.