In the autumn of 1669, the legal records of Inverness formally noted the case of More Roy, a resident of the remote Highland district of Moidart. On September 30, More became the subject of a judicial proceeding documented under case reference C/JO/2864. This period in Scottish history was marked by a rigorous administrative approach to allegations of maleficium, where local magistrates and regional courts meticulously recorded the initiation of such trials within the overarching framework of the Witchcraft Act of 1563.
Following the initial registration of the case, the matter proceeded to trial under the reference T/JO/647. While the surviving archives preserve the administrative framework of More’s prosecution, the specific testimonies, local grievances, or particular accusations that prompted the court to intervene remain absent from the extant record. Consequently, while the trial of More stands as a documented instance of the legal processes governing seventeenth-century Moidart, the details regarding the specific events or circumstances that brought More before the court are no longer known to history.