On 25 July 1649, Agnes Broune, a resident of Nisbet in the parish of Saltoun, Haddington, became formally entangled in the legal processes of the Scottish witch trials. Her involvement began when she was named by another accused individual, Margaret Dickson, during the heightened judicial scrutiny of the mid-seventeenth century. Following this denunciation, Agnes was subjected to the procedures of the time, resulting in the recording of a confession on the same day that her name was brought forward.
The administrative trail surrounding Agnes indicates that she was part of a broader legal effort involving a request for a commission to investigate her case. Alongside her, twelve other individuals were identified within the same petition, suggesting that the local authorities were managing a collective inquiry. While the records confirm that a confession was officially documented under reference C/JO/2680, the specific contents of her statement remain absent from the surviving archive. Following these initial proceedings, her case moved through the court system, noted in trial documents T/JO/118 and T/JO/119, though the eventual outcome of these judicial activities is not preserved in the historical record.