On the 25th of January 1632, the judicial processes of the Scottish Kirk and state converged upon a woman identified in the court records as Masie Fellowsdale. A resident of the Mill of Greenock in Renfrew, Masie was brought before the authorities to answer to the serious charge of witchcraft. This legal action, cataloged under case reference C/LA/3266, occurred during a period when local sessions and the central courts were increasingly active in responding to accusations of maleficium and diabolical pacts within the burgeoning communities of the Clyde coast.
Following the initial registration of the case, the formal mechanisms of the Scottish justice system proceeded toward a trial under reference T/LA/1892. While the specific nature of the accusations brought against her remains confined to these archival notations, the inclusion of Masie in the court records reflects the formal scrutiny applied to individuals suspected of transgressing the spiritual and social boundaries of seventeenth-century Renfrewshire. Her case stands as a documented chapter in the long history of the early modern Scottish witch trials, illustrating the intersection of local residence and institutional law.