On March 29, 1659, the legal proceedings against Lancelot Crictoun commenced under the reference C/EGD/340. A resident of the burgh of Haddington, Lancelot was identified in the judicial records as a married man, though his connection to the accusations extended beyond his own person. His wife was also formally accused of witchcraft, marking the case as one of the instances in seventeenth-century Scotland where legal suspicion fell upon multiple members of a single household.
The records concerning Lancelot are brief, yet they anchor him within the broader framework of the Scottish witch trials that persisted throughout the mid-seventeenth century. Following his initial appearance in 1659, the archival trail for his case concludes with the reference T/LA/1713. While the specific nature of the allegations brought against Lancelot remains unstated in these documents, the administrative trajectory of his trial reflects the systematic nature of the Scottish judicial process during this period.