In late May 1650, Agnes Bouglass, a resident of the parish of Pencaitland in Haddington, became one of a group of six individuals swept into the judicial machinery of the Scottish witch trials. On the 29th of that month, the legal proceedings against Agnes and her co-accused reached a significant juncture, as evidenced by the formal documentation of their cases (C/JO/2710). During this process, she was subjected to an examination that resulted in a recorded confession, a pivotal document in the administrative record of the time.
Following this development, Agnes proceeded to trial (T/JO/158). While the surviving records—catalogued under the court's proceedings for that spring—do not detail the specific accusations or the nature of her testimony, her case serves as a fragment of the broader, intensive legal activity that defined the year 1650 in East Lothian. The administrative trail left by Agnes concludes with these notations, marking her involvement in a period where such judicial inquiries were a stark and frequent reality of early modern Scottish life.