In the summer of 1622, the town of Haddington became the site of a legal proceeding involving Jonet Maglene. A woman of lower socioeconomic standing, Jonet lived within the burgh alongside her husband, who earned his living as a gardener. The historical records of the time place her case within the broader context of the Scottish witch trials, formally categorized under case file C/EGD/908.
The administrative trail left by these events indicates that the judicial process moved forward on the 6th of June, 1622. Following the initial record of the accusation, the matter proceeded to a formal trial, documented under reference T/LA/350. Through these surviving notations, the life of Jonet is preserved not as a personal narrative, but as a specific instance of the legal and social machinery that governed early modern Haddington.