On May 29, 1650, Helin Guild of North Berwick was brought into the legal apparatus of the Haddington jurisdiction amidst a period of heightened judicial activity. Her case, documented under reference C/JO/2720, situates her within a collective legal action alongside nine other individuals. While the broader circumstances of these proceedings remain sparse in the extant records, the inclusion of Helin within this group suggests that her arrest was part of a wider series of investigations occurring in the region during that spring.
The archival evidence confirms that on the same day as the initial documentation of her case, Helin provided a formal confession. While the specific contents of this testimony were not preserved in the trial notes (T/JO/168), the existence of a signed confession marks a significant turning point in the judicial process of the seventeenth century. By the end of the day, Helin had become an active participant in the legal record of the North Berwick witch trials, though the ultimate resolution of her case remains obscured by the limitations of the surviving seventeenth-century documentation.