In the year 1599, the judicial records of Ayr document the legal proceedings against a woman named Jonet Young. Residing within the burgh of Ayr, Jonet became the subject of a formal process under the jurisdiction of the local courts, which were then actively engaged in the regulation of perceived supernatural crimes. The surviving documentation, filed under case reference C/LA/3175, outlines the systematic transition from accusation to the eventual culmination of the trial process.
The legal inquiry concluded with a verdict of guilty, leading to the sentencing of Jonet in accordance with the statutes governing the period. As stipulated in the trial record T/LA/1742, the sentence was carried out in full, and she was put to death by burning. This finality reflects the severe judicial climate of late sixteenth-century Scotland, where such outcomes were formalised through the institutional mechanisms of the local magistracy.