In the winter of 1591, a resident of Leith known only by the name Linkup (occasionally recorded as Lenchop) became the subject of a judicial proceeding that would leave behind a sparse but permanent trace in the Scottish legal records. On January 27, 1591, Linkup was brought before the authorities under the category of a witchcraft accusation, marking the commencement of a formal inquiry identified in the archives as case C/LA/2898.
Little else is known of the individual beyond this administrative documentation. The archival trail, while brief, confirms that the legal machinery of the era transitioned the matter into a formal trial, indexed as T/LA/935. For Linkup, this transition signified the point at which personal history was subsumed into the rigorous and often fatal protocols of the Scottish criminal justice system during the late sixteenth century.