In September 1649, Margaret Admiston, a resident of Borthwick in Midlothian, became one of many swept into the judicial machinery of the Scottish witch trials. Her legal proceedings are documented under case reference C/JO/2801, which records her involvement alongside three other unnamed individuals. The administrative brevity of the records—which note the possibility that she may also have been known as Marjorie—belies the gravity of the situation she faced during a period of intense religious and social upheaval in Scotland.
The historical trail for Margaret concludes with a formal confession recorded during the same month as her initial case filing. While the surviving documents under trial reference T/JO/353 provide no further narrative detail regarding the specific charges or the eventual outcome of the proceedings, the existence of the confession indicates that she underwent the standard judicial process of the time. This brief archival footprint captures the definitive moment when Margaret was brought before the authorities in Borthwick, marking her place in the ledger of seventeenth-century Scottish legal history.