In the spring of 1658, Agnes Robeson, a resident of Craigie in the county of Ayr, became a subject of the Scottish judicial system during a period of heightened legal scrutiny regarding witchcraft. On the 31st of March, a porteous roll was issued, formalizing the summons that would draw Agnes and a wider group of accused individuals into the reach of the law. This administrative step necessitated her appearance before the regional authorities, marking the beginning of a process that placed her at the center of a formal legal inquiry.
By the 4th of April 1658, Agnes was formally listed in the records of the Ayr court for her trial. The proceedings were part of a coordinated effort within the justice system to address these specific accusations, as evidenced by the concurrent processing of the porteous rolls. Through these surviving administrative documents, Agnes remains defined by her residency in Craigie and the legal intersection between the local summons and the subsequent court appearance that took place in Ayr that April.