In the spring of 1650, amidst a period of heightened social and religious tension in Scotland, Margaret Park was identified as one of ten individuals accused of witchcraft within the parish of North Berwick, Haddington. On May 29, 1650, the legal proceedings against Margaret commenced, marking her entry into the formal judicial process of the period. While the archival records for this specific case are notably sparse regarding her personal background or the specific nature of the allegations brought against her, her involvement was inextricably linked to this larger cohort of accused persons.
On that same day, May 29, 1650, a confession was recorded under Margaret’s name. This document remains the primary source documenting her participation in the legal trial process, designated in the surviving registers as T/JO/165. Although the precise contents of her statement and the subsequent outcomes of the judicial proceedings are not preserved in the available records, her case remains a recorded instance of the administrative and legal machinery that characterized the witch trials in mid-seventeenth-century East Lothian.