In the spring of 1675, Agnes Hendrie, a widow residing in the burgh of Culross, Fife, found herself at the centre of a protracted legal process that would span several months. Following her initial examination, Agnes provided a confession in the Tolbooth on 4 May 1675. This was merely the beginning of a series of testimonies, as legal records indicate that Agnes provided further confessions on 12 July and 19 July, throughout the course of a trial that had commenced in Edinburgh on 12 July. The charges brought against her were serious and specific, central to which was the allegation that she had participated in a witches' meeting.
The judicial proceedings against Agnes moved with the typical rigour of the period, concluding with a verdict of guilty. Her fate was sealed on 29 July 1675, the same day her final confession was noted in the record. Agnes was taken to the gallows situated between Edinburgh and Leith, where she was subjected to the sentence of strangulation followed by burning. The methodical documentation of her multiple confessions alongside the finality of her execution reflects the formal administrative process through which the Scottish courts addressed such accusations during the late seventeenth century.