In the early summer of 1601, the administrative records of the Scottish courts capture a brief, yet consequential, mention of George Methven. Known by his residence "beside Methven’s Coble"—a location most likely referring to the vicinity of a brewing vat—George lived in a period where the legal and religious anxieties of the early modern era were increasingly focused on the crime of witchcraft. His name appears in the registers alongside that of Hew Methven, marking a moment where the formal mechanisms of the state began to exert pressure upon their lives.
On the 2nd of July 1601, George and Hew were officially denounced as rebels. This legal status was conferred upon them not necessarily through a verdict of witchcraft, but as a direct consequence of their failure to answer the charges brought against them. The extant records for case C/EGD/843 remain incomplete, leaving it unclear whether the two men were summoned to face a formal trial or to provide testimony in a broader inquiry. Consequently, George disappears from the documented history of the period at this threshold of rebellion, his ultimate fate left unrecorded by the scribes of the time.