In January 1591, the legal machinery of early modern Scotland turned its attention toward Haddington, where the wife of Nicoll Murray found herself formally entangled in the judicial process of the witch trials. As the spouse of a tailor, she occupied a middling socioeconomic position within the burgh, a status that did not grant her immunity from the suspicions that increasingly characterized the religious and social anxieties of the late sixteenth century. The records confirm that proceedings against her were initiated on January 27, 1591, under the case designation C/EGD/64.
Following the initial registration of her case, the legal path for Murray led to a subsequent trial, cataloged as T/LA/936. While the specific nature of the allegations brought against her remains absent from the extant documentation, the archival trail identifies her simply through her connection to her husband. This transition from a residential identification in Haddington to the formal environment of a trial reflects the standard procedures of the period, as the ecclesiastical and secular authorities sought to address rumors of maleficium or diabolical association within their jurisdictions.