In June 1629, the judicial records of Peebles document the formal appearance of Agnes Robesoun before the local authorities. As a landless woman living the precarious life of a vagabond, Agnes occupied a marginal position within the social hierarchy of the early seventeenth-century Scottish Lowlands. Her lack of stable residence or property often rendered individuals in her circumstances particularly vulnerable to communal suspicion during periods of local tension, leading to her designation in the case files (C/EGD/655) as an object of legal scrutiny.
The process initiated against Agnes moved quickly through the administrative machinery of the era. While her entry in the court records provides the essential biographical markers of her sex, status, and place of origin, the corresponding trial notes (T/JO/557) remain conspicuously empty of specific testimony or procedural detail. Consequently, the narrative of her legal struggle exists only as a fragment within the broader history of the 1563–1736 witch trials, marking her as one of the many figures whose involvement in the justice system was recorded, yet whose personal experience of the courtroom remains lost to the silence of the archives.