The legal records concerning Jokkie Gray-meill, a resident of Haddington, emerge from the turbulent judicial proceedings of 1591, a year marked by the sweeping North Berwick witch trials. On January 27, 1591, Jokkie appears within the archival register (C/LA/2901) as an individual subject to the scrutiny of the Scottish courts. Her name is inextricably linked to the high-profile trial of Agnes Sampson, one of the primary figures accused of conspiring against King James VI.
Within the documentation, there is an unresolved ambiguity regarding Jokkie’s identity, as historians have noted a potential overlap with an individual recorded as Johnne Gordoun. Despite this possible connection, archival constraints prevent a formal merger of the two entries, and she remains catalogued distinctly in the trial records (T/LA/974). Consequently, Jokkie remains a figure defined by her proximity to the most infamous witchcraft investigations of the late sixteenth century, even as the specific nature of the charges brought against her in Haddington remain obscured by the passage of time.