On April 15, 1671, a legal process was convened in Ross concerning a woman named Grissel Grot. The records of the court, filed under case number C/EGD/805 and trial reference T/LA/1160, document this brief but formal judicial encounter. During the proceedings, Grissel was noted for making specific statements regarding an individual or entity referred to in the records as "Siddrie."
While the documentation of this trial remains limited in its surviving scope, it provides a window into the local administration of justice in seventeenth-century Ross. By recording the testimony Grissel provided on that spring day in 1671, the court preserved the echo of her own voice, capturing the intersection of her lived experience and the legal framework that governed her community during this era of intensified witch-hunting.