In the late summer of 1661, the legal machinery of Restoration-era Scotland turned its focus toward Jannet Meikleson, a resident of Edinburgh. On the 3rd of August, records indicate that Jannet was formally identified as the subject of a witchcraft investigation, cataloged under case reference C/LA/2781. In the climate of the mid-seventeenth century, such a registration was the initial step in a rigorous and often perilous judicial process, signaling that the authorities had received sufficient reports or denunciations to warrant the intervention of the state.
Following the initial filing of her case, the proceedings against Jannet progressed to a formal trial, documented under reference T/LA/296. While the specific testimony and the ultimate verdict of her appearance before the court remain preserved only as administrative fragments within the legal archives, the existence of this trial record confirms her passage through the formal justice system. Her story, preserved in these brief bureaucratic entries, serves as a testament to the systematic scrutiny of individuals in Edinburgh during a period when the intersections of law, community suspicion, and religious fervor defined the experience of those accused of witchcraft.