In the early summer of 1630, the legal apparatus of the Scottish justice system focused its attention upon a woman named Bessie Dagleishe, a resident of the remote settlement of Tinneis Burn in the county of Selkirk. On the 17th of June, 1630, official documentation regarding her case (C/LA/2866) was formally processed, marking the commencement of the legal proceedings that would lead to her trial.
The subsequent judicial process, recorded under trial reference T/LA/668, placed Bessie within the specific administrative and social context of the seventeenth-century Borders. As the records provide no details regarding the specific accusations or the eventual outcome of the trial, she remains defined primarily by the date of her appearance before the court and her residency in the pastoral landscape of Selkirk. Her case stands as a brief, documented entry in the broader history of the witch trials that permeated the Scottish landscape between 1563 and 1736.