In December 1626, legal proceedings were initiated against Jonnet Robbie, a resident of the lands of Auchlossin in Aberdeenshire. According to the extant judicial records catalogued under reference C/EGD/984, the formal charge of witchcraft was brought against her on the 14th of that month. This period in Scottish history was marked by an intensification of local kirk sessions and criminal courts focused on the identification of maleficium, and Jonnet found herself caught within the mechanisms of this rigorous administrative apparatus.
Following the initial accusation, the case moved into the formal trial phase under the record T/LA/453. As was standard practice in early modern Aberdeenshire, the subsequent legal process would have involved an examination of the testimonies presented by her neighbors in Auchlossin regarding her alleged involvement in supernatural practices. While the specific nature of the depositions against Jonnet remains preserved in the archives, her ordeal exemplifies the broader pattern of judicial scrutiny directed at women in rural Scottish communities during the seventeenth century.