In the early months of 1629, the legal apparatus of the Scottish kirk and state turned its attention to Jonet Lyndsay. On February 4, 1629, her name was formally entered into the judicial records under case file C/LA/2632. This archival designation marks the commencement of a formal inquiry into her actions, positioning Jonet within the broader context of the judicial proceedings that defined the seventeenth-century Scottish witch trials.
The trajectory of Jonet’s case continued under trial reference T/LA/2, documenting the movement of the accusations through the established court system of the period. While the archival record remains sparse regarding the specific allegations brought against her, the existence of these records confirms that Jonet was subjected to the rigorous legal scrutiny typical of the era. Her experience serves as a testament to the administrative consistency with which authorities approached those suspected of witchcraft during the intermittent but intense waves of prosecution that characterized the Scottish landscape in the early modern period.