On December 14, 1626, the legal machinery of the Scottish justice system focused its attention upon Agnes Forbes, a resident of the settlement of Whitestryps in Aberdeenshire. Her appearance in the historical record is marked by the formal registration of her case, identified under the reference number C/EGD/990. At a time when the administrative oversight of witchcraft accusations was becoming increasingly codified within the Scottish courts, Agnes was brought into this system of inquiry, eventually leading to the trial proceedings documented under reference T/LA/459.
The transition from her life in Whitestryps to the formal trial environment represents a documented chapter in the long history of the early modern Scottish witch trials. As the legal process unfolded following her initial indictment, Agnes became a subject of the local judiciary’s rigorous scrutiny. While the specific nature of the allegations brought against her remains encapsulated within these surviving archival references, her case stands as a testament to the intersection of community suspicion and the institutional authority that defined the pursuit of witchcraft in the seventeenth century.