In the autumn of 1649, Agnes Angus, a resident of the village of Stenton in Haddington, found herself formally entangled in the machinery of the Scottish legal system. On 19 October, her name was entered into the official record under case file C/JO/2693, marking a critical juncture in the administrative proceedings against her. While the surviving archives provide no specific narrative of the allegations leveled against her, the nature of the documentation confirms that she was subject to the judicial scrutiny that characterized the witch trials of the mid-seventeenth century.
The subsequent legal trail for Agnes is brief and denotes a profound shift in her circumstances. The records contained within trial file T/JO/138 indicate that she became a fugitive from justice, effectively removing herself from the jurisdiction of the court before the proceedings could reach a formal conclusion. Consequently, while the historical record preserves the dates and procedural categorizations of her case, the precise details of the accusations against her remain lost to time, leaving only the shadow of a woman who chose to flee rather than submit to the finality of the trial process.