In April 1568, the legal machinery of the Scottish state focused its attention upon Geilis Feirour, a married woman residing in the parish of Arbroath and St Vigeans within the county of Forfar. The surviving records of the Justiciary Court, indexed under case reference C/LA/3372, document the initiation of formal proceedings against her during a period when the prosecution of witchcraft was beginning to crystallize within the Scottish legal framework. Though her surname remains tethered to the orthography of the sixteenth century, the documentation preserves the essential details of her encounter with the authorities of the era.
Following the initial registration of her case, Geilis was brought to trial under the reference T/LA/2240. The administrative trail left by these proceedings highlights the structured, bureaucratic nature of the witch trials in sixteenth-century Scotland, where local residents were identified and subjected to the scrutiny of the judicial system. While the specific evidentiary narrative presented against Geilis has not survived in the form of a detailed confession or witness testimony, the existence of these records confirms her position within the historical archive of those caught in the judicial tensions of 1568.