On 13 April 1632, the judicial machinery of early modern Scotland turned its attention to Margaret Hall, a resident of the parish of Killellan in Renfrew. Her appearance before the authorities was logged under case file C/LA/3273, marking the formal initiation of legal proceedings against her. In the context of the seventeenth century, such a summons represented a grave escalation in community tensions, as the legal framework governing witchcraft sought to identify those perceived to have transgressed the boundaries of spiritual and social order.
Following the initial registration of her case, the process against Margaret moved toward a formal hearing, recorded as trial T/LA/1899. Within the rigid, prescriptive atmosphere of the Renfrewshire courts, the legal process required Margaret to answer to the allegations leveled against her under the statutes of the time. While the specific nature of the evidence brought forward in Killellan remains confined to these archival entries, the proceedings stand as a testament to the structured, procedural manner in which the Scottish judiciary processed witchcraft accusations during this period of heightened scrutiny.