On July 29, 1661, the judicial records of the Scottish courts registered the case of Margaret Scot (C/LA/2764). Her appearance in the surviving documentation marks a point of formal legal intervention during a period of heightened scrutiny regarding the practice of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland. The archival entry captures the administrative gravity of her situation, situating her experience within the broader procedural framework of the era’s criminal justice system.
Following this initial registration, the case moved into the formal trial process under the reference T/LA/270. As the legal mechanisms of the court were applied to Margaret, the documentation preserves the essential administrative timeline of her experience. Her case stands as a concise yet significant entry in the extensive records of the 1563–1736 witch trials, reflecting the bureaucratic consistency with which the state addressed allegations of sorcery during the early modern period.