In June 1629, Glibert Hog, a resident of Winkstoun in the parish of Peebles, became caught in the sweeping judicial apparatus of the Scottish witch trials. His name appears in the archival records (C/EGD/647) alongside twenty-six other individuals, suggesting that his legal predicament was part of a larger, collective investigation rather than an isolated incident. During this period, the legal machinery of the Scottish kirk and state often targeted clusters of neighbors or community members simultaneously, reflecting the localized anxieties and social tensions that frequently precipitated such proceedings.
While the specific allegations brought against him remain unrecorded, the trial notes (T/JO/564) confirm that Glibert was subjected to the formal legal process of the time. The transition from his initial identification to the courtroom proceedings marks him as one of the many figures caught in the ecclesiastical and civil scrutiny that characterized early seventeenth-century Peeblesshire. Despite the documentation of his name, residence, and the date of his involvement, the eventual outcome of the case remains absent from the surviving historical record, leaving the final resolution of his experience to the silence of the archives.