The historical record preserves only a fragment of the life of Issobel More, a woman residing in the parish of Auldearn, Nairn, during a period of intense judicial scrutiny regarding witchcraft. On 13 April 1662, she was officially entered into the judicial system under case number C/LA/3241. Her name appears amidst the broader context of the mid-17th-century witch hunts that surged through the Scottish Highlands, where local communities and kirk sessions increasingly turned to the courts to address perceived spiritual and social transgressions.
Following her initial identification, the administrative trail for Issobel leads directly to her formal trial, documented under reference T/LA/1867. While the surviving documentation remains sparse, the transition from a recorded case to a trial indicates that Issobel was subjected to the rigorous legal mechanisms of the period. For a woman living in Auldearn at this time, the movement of her case through the courts signifies the gravity with which the local and regional authorities approached the accusations brought against her.