In the autumn of 1649, the legal authorities in Kelso, Roxburgh, turned their attention to Issabell Gilpatrick, marking the commencement of a formal judicial process against her. On the 14th of October, official documentation under case reference C/JO/3139 was entered into the record, initiating the proceedings that would eventually lead to her appearance before the court.
The subsequent legal journey for Issabell is preserved in the trial records categorized under T/JO/1641. These proceedings place her within the broader context of the Scottish witch trials of the mid-seventeenth century, a period characterized by heightened administrative scrutiny. Though the specific testimonies and individual charges leveled against Issabell remain restricted to these archival notations, the existence of these records confirms her subjection to the rigorous ecclesiastical and civil judicial systems of the era.