Elizabeth Jamesone, a woman of middling status residing in the port town of Barrowstouness, Bo’ness, became subject to the scrutiny of the Scottish legal system in the spring of 1624. Married to a local skipper, Elizabeth occupied a stable position within the maritime community of Linlithgowshire. The archival traces of her life during this period—recorded in case file C/LA/2652—indicate that she may be the same individual identified in other ecclesiastical and legal records as Elspett Jamesoun.
On April 17, 1624, formal proceedings were initiated against Elizabeth. This legal action culminated in a trial, documented under reference T/LA/431, which placed her within the broader context of the Scottish witch trials that characterized the early modern period. While the specific nature of the allegations brought against Elizabeth remain silent in the surviving records, her case reflects the persistent intersection of community tension and judicial oversight that defined the experiences of many women in seventeenth-century Scotland.