In June 1629, Marion Boyd, a resident of Athelstane in Peebles, became one of the many individuals caught within the expansive legal machinery of the Scottish witch trials. Her name appears as part of a significant group of twenty-seven people identified in the legal proceedings documented under case reference C/EGD/643. The scale of this accusation suggests a period of heightened scrutiny within the community, where individuals were frequently linked together in collective investigations during the seventeenth century.
Despite the documentation confirming the formal initiation of proceedings against Marion on 11 June 1629, the subsequent historical record T/JO/548 remains silent regarding the specific evidence brought against her or the final verdict of her trial. While the initial legal filing provides a clear record of her identity and the date of her involvement in this larger case, the details of her testimony, the nature of the allegations, and the ultimate resolution of her legal status remain absent from the surviving archives.