On August 7, 1661, Margaret Browne was brought before the authorities to face formal proceedings under case number C/LA/2804. Situated within the volatile climate of mid-seventeenth-century Scotland, her legal journey was marked by the administrative rigour that characterized the witch trials of the era. The surviving documentation identifies Margaret as a subject of significant judicial scrutiny, catalogued under the archival reference for the town of Lanark.
Following the initial registration of her case, Margaret was subjected to the formal processes of a trial, documented under reference T/LA/389. While the brevity of the existing records obscures the specific testimonies or the final verdict rendered against her, the existence of these entries confirms that she was processed through the established judicial mechanisms of the 1661 persecution. These archives serve as a formal witness to her experience within the Scottish legal system during one of the most intense periods of witchcraft investigation in the early modern period.