In the autumn of 1622, the judicial machinery of the Scottish witch trials turned its attention toward the coastal parish of Largs in Ayrshire, specifically focusing on a woman named Maig Knox. Her case, documented under reference C/EGD/919, officially entered the legal record on October 12, 1622. During this period, the legal framework for such prosecutions was increasingly formalised, and Maig’s appearance in the registers marks the beginning of the administrative process that would determine her fate within the local community and the eyes of the kirk and state.
Following her initial identification, the matter proceeded to a formal trial, cataloged as T/LA/361. The transition from the recording of her case to the subsequent proceedings reflects the gravity with which the authorities in Largs treated allegations of witchcraft. Throughout the course of these documented events, Maig remained the subject of an intense legal inquiry, as the evidence and testimony gathered against her were weighed within the structured, often rigorous, environment of the seventeenth-century Scottish courtroom.