On July 29, 1661, the judicial records of the Scottish courts formally recorded the case of Katherine Legget (C/LA/2763). This entry identifies her as a woman brought before the legal authorities during a period of intense judicial scrutiny regarding witchcraft. Her documentation remains sparse, anchored by this specific mid-summer date, which places her involvement within the volatile atmosphere of the Restoration-era witch hunts that swept through various Scottish shires during the 1660s.
Following the initial registration of the case, the administrative process moved toward a formal legal proceeding, designated as trial T/LA/269. While the brevity of these records reflects the standard archival preservation of many such seventeenth-century cases, the transition from a recorded name to an assigned trial number underscores the bureaucratic gravity Katherine faced. As a subject of this historical inquiry, Katherine represents the thousands of individuals whose lives were caught within the rigid mechanisms of the early modern Scottish legal system.