In late November 1679, the legal apparatus of the Scottish state focused its attention upon the wife of Walte Anderson, a resident of Grange Pans in the parish of Bo'ness, Linlithgow. As recorded in the judicial archives under case reference C/LA/3077, the woman was brought before the authorities to answer to the grave charge of witchcraft. Her position as a married woman within the community of Grange Pans placed her at the intersection of local domestic life and the intense scrutiny of the seventeenth-century ecclesiastical and civil courts, which remained highly vigilant against manifestations of perceived supernatural influence during this period.
The subsequent legal process, identified in the records as trial T/LA/1470, marked the formal progression of the case against her. While the surviving documentation provides only the skeletal framework of these proceedings, the trial of the wife of Walte Anderson serves as a singular point of intersection between the administrative rigour of the Linlithgowshire courts and the lived experience of those caught within the mechanisms of the Great Scottish Witch Hunt. Her case remains part of the broader historical archive that captures the specific demographic and geographic distribution of accusations in late seventeenth-century Scotland.