In the summer of 1630, the legal and religious authorities of Dalkeith and Edinburgh turned their focus toward Jenet Davidson. While the extant records concerning her life are sparse, the bureaucratic machinery of the period moved with swift and fatal precision. On July 23, 1630, Jenet appeared before an assize in Edinburgh, an event deemed of sufficient importance that the brethren of the local presbytery were formally instructed to attend the proceedings, ensuring the oversight of the ecclesiastical establishment during her trial.
The judicial process concluded rapidly, resulting in a verdict of guilty. Following her conviction, the sentence was carried out with haste; within the same month, Jenet was executed by burning. The surviving documentation, filed under case reference C/JO/2793, provides only the stark chronology of her legal proceedings, leaving the specific nature of the accusations against her unrecorded. Her case remains a documented entry in the broader history of the Scottish witch trials, marking the end of her life in July 1630.