In December 1626, legal proceedings were initiated in the city of Aberdeen against a resident known as Cummer Muttoun. The case, formally catalogued under the reference C/EGD/980, marked the commencement of a judicial process that would culminate in a trial registered as T/LA/449. While the surviving administrative records offer limited insight into the specific allegations or the nature of the proceedings, the existence of these entries confirms that Cummer was subjected to the formal legal scrutiny of the Scottish courts during a period when witchcraft accusations were a significant component of the judicial landscape in the north-east.
The documentation surrounding Cummer provides a stark glimpse into the bureaucratic reality of the witch trials in early seventeenth-century Scotland. By the mid-December date of 1626, Cummer had been brought within the purview of the local authorities, triggering a sequence of legal actions that moved from the initial case filing to a full trial. Though the records for this individual remain fragmentary, they serve as a testament to the structured, state-sanctioned framework through which individuals such as Cummer were processed by the civil and ecclesiastical powers of the era.