In May 1623, the judicial machinery of early modern Fife turned its attention toward Margaret Kynnell, an indweller of the royal burgh of Inverkeithing. Occupying a middling socioeconomic status within the community, Margaret was brought before the authorities to answer to serious charges of witchcraft. The legal documentation—catalogued under case reference C/EGD/931 and trial record T/LA/64—places her squarely within the heightened period of ecclesiastical and secular scrutiny that defined the Scottish witch trials.
The legal proceedings culminated in a recorded confession, a pivotal document in the formal trial process of the era. While the specific content of her statements remains brief in the archival summary, the existence of this confession indicates that Margaret provided a formal account of her actions before the court. As an indweller of Inverkeithing, her status and testimony remain preserved in these primary records, marking her as one of the many individuals who navigated the complex and often perilous intersection of local suspicion and judicial inquiry in seventeenth-century Scotland.