In the spring of 1629, the legal records of Berwickshire capture the emergence of a case against Adam Cristie, a resident of the coastal town of Eyemouth. On March 14, 1629, Adam was formally entered into the judicial system under case file C/LA/3018. His appearance in the records coincides with a period of heightened judicial scrutiny in the region, during which the mechanisms of the Scottish state were increasingly applied to the investigation of those suspected of diabolical practices.
Though Adam’s specific indictments remain elusive in the surviving summaries, the broader context of the archival entry suggests he was part of a larger cluster of legal proceedings involving the Cristie family. The existence of a corresponding trial record, T/LA/1279, indicates that the initial denunciation against Adam moved beyond preliminary accusations into formal judicial process. As an individual connected to a wider group of kin similarly denounced during this wave of trials, his case reflects the communal and familial nature often observed in seventeenth-century Scottish witchcraft prosecutions, where suspicion frequently rippled through established social networks.