In January 1650, the legal apparatus of Edinburgh turned its attention to a woman named Jennet Grig. While archival traces of her life remain sparse, the formal documentation categorizes her as one of four individuals swept into the judicial proceedings of that month. On January 17, 1650, Jennet was officially recorded as a confessing witch, marking her involvement in a wider cluster of cases that occupied the city's courts during this period.
The nature of the proceedings against Jennet is preserved in the sparse entries of case file C/JO/2823 and trial record T/JO/384. Though the specific details of her testimony were not transcribed in the surviving manuscripts, the records confirm that she submitted a formal confession earlier that same month. Following this admission, she remained a focal point of the legal investigation alongside her three co-accused, reflecting the methodical, bureaucratic process by which the Scottish justice system handled witchcraft allegations during the mid-seventeenth century.