In the summer of 1629, the small coastal community of Eyemouth in Berwickshire became the site of a formal legal inquiry involving a woman named Katharine Cristie. According to the surviving judicial documentation, Katharine was brought before the authorities on July 27, 1629, to answer to charges of witchcraft. The legal process initiated against her—indexed under case file C/LA/3014—reflected the broader anxieties and regulatory rigor regarding perceived supernatural transgression that defined this period in early modern Scotland.
Following the initial registration of her case, the records indicate that Katharine was subjected to a trial, documented under T/LA/1275. While the sparse nature of these archival remnants leaves the specific nature of the testimony and the ultimate resolution of her trial obscured by time, they remain a formal testament to the entanglement of Katharine within the Scottish judicial machinery of the seventeenth century. These entries serve as the historical footprint of her encounter with the state during the intense period of witch-hunting that gripped the region.