In the winter of 1633, the legal machinery of early modern Scotland turned its attention toward Alisoun Baillie, a woman residing in the parish of Dalkeith. On the 31st of January, Alisoun was formally recorded within the judicial system under the designation C/JO/2795. This initial administrative action placed her squarely within the heightened atmosphere of the witch hunts that characterised this period of Scottish history, marking the beginning of a process intended to address allegations of maleficium or demonic association.
Despite this recorded entry and the subsequent documentation of her case in the trial records (T/JO/343), the surviving archives offer no evidence that Alisoun ever faced a formal court appearance or a final verdict. While the lack of further documentation leaves the specific nature of the charges against her a matter of historical silence, the mere registration of her name confirms her involvement in the procedural mechanisms of the time. Ultimately, Alisoun remains a figure whose brush with the justice system concluded without the resolution of a trial, leaving her brief appearance in the records as a stark example of the precarious nature of life during the height of the Scottish witch trials.