In the summer of 1629, the village of West Linton in Peebles became the site of a significant legal action involving Katharine Alexander. On June 11, Katharine was formally named alongside twenty-six other individuals in a case documented under the reference C/EGD/640. This collective indictment points to a period of heightened judicial scrutiny within the region, where the naming of such a large group suggests a sprawling investigation that deeply impacted the local community.
Following the initial filing of the case, records indicate that Katharine was processed through the Scottish judicial system under trial reference T/JO/566. While the extant documentation provides the official administrative footprint of these proceedings, the specific details regarding the testimony, the nature of the charges, or the eventual outcome of the trial remain absent from the historical record. Consequently, Katharine remains a figure defined by her inclusion in this expansive legal action, marking a singular point in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century history of witchcraft prosecutions in Peebles.