In February 1596, the judicial machinery of the Stirling presbytery turned its attention to Margaret Crawfurd, a resident of the parish of Denny. At this time, Denny fell under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Stirling presbytery, a period of transition that would end in 1601. The archival record, indexed under case number C/JO/3066, documents the formal entry of her accusation during a era when the Scottish kirk and state were increasingly preoccupied with the investigation of maleficium.
The trial proceedings, catalogued as T/JO/1444, confirm that Margaret was subjected to the legal scrutiny characteristic of the late sixteenth century. While the specific nature of the charges against her remains confined to the administrative ledger, her case stands as a representative example of the presbyterial oversight prevalent in Stirlingshire during the 1590s. Through these sparse but significant records, the account of Margaret remains preserved within the broader history of the Scottish witch trials.