In the autumn of 1649, a woman identified in the legal records only as the spouse of William Thomesone was drawn into the mechanisms of the Scottish judicial system. Residing in Broughtounsheilles, within the jurisdiction of Peebles, she found herself the subject of a formal process under case number C/LA/3295. On the 6th of November 1649, the administrative machinery of the era formally documented her status as a married woman caught in the escalating anxieties of the mid-seventeenth century.
Following the initial record of her identification, Thomesone moved toward a formal legal proceeding under trial reference T/LA/2053. While the documentation provides limited detail regarding the specific allegations brought against her, her inclusion in the archives of the period reflects the broader socio-legal climate of the Peebles region during that year. As a spouse within the community of Broughtounsheilles, Thomesone stood at the intersection of local suspicion and the formalized ecclesiastical and secular inquiries that defined the witch trials of the era.