In the spring of 1636, the legal machinery of early modern Scotland turned its attention toward the town of Elgin, where a woman named Agnes Nein Donnald Kir was brought before the authorities. The administrative records from 31 March 1636 formally identify Agnes as a resident of this Moray-based burgh, marking the beginning of a judicial process that would culminate in her prosecution. Her case, documented under the reference number C/LA/3323, remains a significant entry in the archives of the seventeenth-century witch trials.
Following her initial identification, the subsequent trial proceedings, recorded as T/LA/2113, moved the case from preliminary suspicion to the formal courtroom setting. While the surviving documentation provides only the administrative framework of these events, it situates Agnes within the broader context of the judicial climate in Elgin during the mid-1630s. Through these sparse records, we observe the specific jurisdictional intersection of her local residence and the legal mechanisms that governed accusations of witchcraft in the region.