In the summer of 1661, Jeane Mathie was brought before the authorities in Edinburgh to answer to the charge of witchcraft. Her case, documented under the reference C/EGD/420, places her within the broader administrative reach of the Scottish judicial system during a period of heightened intensity regarding such accusations. Historical records note that Jeane was a resident of Edinburgh, though the scholar Christina Larner associated her specifically with the locales of Liberton and Duddingston, areas on the city’s periphery that were frequently subject to ecclesiastical and civil scrutiny during the mid-seventeenth century.
The formal proceedings against Jeane culminated in a trial, recorded as T/LA/387, which took place on the 7th of August 1661. By this date, the legal apparatus of the Restoration era was actively processing cases that had surfaced in the wake of the political and social upheavals of the preceding decades. The documentation surrounding Jeane remains focused on these formal markers—her residence, the jurisdictional link to the Liberton area, and the definitive timeline of her trial—serving as a stark record of the judicial experience she underwent within the institutional framework of early modern Scotland.