In the late autumn of 1633, the legal machinery of the Scottish state focused its attention upon Agnes Alinschaw, a resident of the coastal town of Eyemouth in Berwickshire. On the 26th of November, her case was officially registered within the records of the Justiciary Court under reference C/LA/3313. This period marked a time of intensified scrutiny regarding allegations of witchcraft, and the initiation of formal proceedings against Agnes placed her directly within the procedural framework that governed such matters across the kingdom during the seventeenth century.
The subsequent trial, recorded under T/LA/2103, represented the culmination of the legal process initiated against Agnes. While the surviving documentation provides the precise coordinates of her encounter with the authorities—identifying both her place of residence and the specific dates of her indictment and trial—these records remain succinct administrative markers of a broader judicial reality. Through these surviving references, the history of Agnes remains preserved as a formal testament to the rigorous, systematic manner in which the state processed accusations of witchcraft in the Scottish Borders during the early modern era.