On August 17, 1610, the legal apparatus of the early modern Scottish judicial system addressed the case of Margaret Symsoun. According to the extant records of the regality of Lunores, Margaret was brought before the bailies to answer charges related to the practice of witchcraft. This judicial setting, common for the period, saw the accused subjected to the formal scrutiny of local magistrates operating under the authority of the regality court, reflecting the localized nature of the witch trials that characterized this era of Scottish history.
The surviving documentation for Margaret—categorized under reference C/LA/3163 and T/LA/1717—provides a concise account of these proceedings. While the records are brief, they confirm that Margaret was formally tried within the legal framework of the time. The transition of her case through the bailies of Lunores highlights the administrative path that many such individuals walked during the height of the seventeenth-century witch-hunting period in Scotland.