The archival record for Janet Daill, a resident of Dumfries, remains frustratingly elusive within the broader landscape of 17th-century judicial proceedings. Listed under case file C/EGD/368, Janet was brought before the authorities on July 16, 1661, amidst a period of heightened societal anxiety and intensive legal scrutiny regarding the practice of witchcraft in Scotland.
While researchers such as Christina Larner have catalogued the formal entry for this case, the specific documentation detailing the nature of the accusations brought against Janet—or the ultimate resolution of her legal ordeal—does not appear in the extant primary sources. Consequently, Janet exists in the historical record as a brief but significant mark of the administrative machinery that defined the Scottish witch trials, representing one of the many women whose lives intersected with the Dumfries legal system during the turbulent summer of 1661.