In April 1568, Issobell Sutye, a resident of Balgavies in the parish of Aberlemno, Forfar, became the subject of legal scrutiny under the Scottish witchcraft statutes. Her case, documented under reference C/LA/3392, marks a moment of local judicial intervention during the early decades following the 1563 Witchcraft Act, which had codified the prosecution of sorcery as a capital offence within the realm.
The procedural record (T/LA/2260) indicates that Issobell underwent the formal processes of the Scottish courts, though the specific nature of the allegations levelled against her—whether involving maleficium, diabolical pacts, or communal conflicts—remains obscured by the brevity of the surviving documentation. For Issobell, however, this trial represented the intersection of ecclesiastical discipline and secular law, placing her within the broader administrative landscape of mid-sixteenth-century Aberlemno as the authorities sought to regulate perceived spiritual and social transgressions.