Trial Details
T/JO/769 Barbara Drummond
- Name of the accused
- Barbara Drummond
- Associated case
- C/EGD/573 (7/5/1667)
- Trial process type
- Local Court
| associated trials | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| trial reference | accused | trial type | trial year | trial place |
| no recorded trials | ||||
Pre-trial actions
| commissions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| commission body | type | date | seal | notes |
| Privy Council | Justiciary | 15/6/1665 | None | PC issued letters of horning against local commissioners to either try her or be denounced and escheated themselves. |
| Privy Council | Justiciary | 21/6/1666 | None | further commissioners added and ordered to try accused before 20/10/1666 |
| None | None | 31/1/1667 | None | commissioners ordered to appear before PC to explain why no trial had been held |
| Privy Council | Release | 7/5/1667 | None | ordered to be released and to attend for trial when called |
| Privy Council | Justiciary | 18/12/1664 | None | Commission to hold local trial |
| Privy Council | None | 22/12/1664 | None | Order to be moved from Edinburgh to Stirling for trial. |
| previous commissions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| commission body | date | |||
| no recorded prior commission | ||||
| appeals | ||
|---|---|---|
| central authority | reason | appeal date |
| no recorded appeals | ||
| complaints | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| type | date of complaint | lodged at | appeal date | complainent | involvement |
| Suspect's | 15/6/1665 | Privy Council | |||
| Family member | 31/1/1667 | Privy Council | |||
| move to higher legal authority | |
|---|---|
| moved to | date of move |
| no recorded move to higher legal authority | |
| denunciations | |
|---|---|
| denuncation date | dated |
| no recorded denunciations | |
| imprisonments | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| incarceration date | central trial imprison | prison | location | moving |
| 1665 | no | Tolbooth | Stirling | no |
| 12/1664 | yes | Tolbooth | Edinburgh | no |
| 1664 | no | None | Dunblane | no |
| 1664 | no | None | Stirling | no |
| tortures | |
|---|---|
| date of torture | torture type |
| no recorded tortures | |
| ordeals | |
|---|---|
| date of ordeal | ordeal type |
| no recorded ordeals | |
| confessions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| central trial confession | date | location | notes |
| no recorded confessions | |||
other information
- Pre-trial notes
- Commission 12/1664 for local trial. Had been taken to Edinburgh for central trial but then returned to Stirling for local trial. Claimed that she was also held in Dunblane. Held in prison for over a year and she appealed to PC to order her trial or release. In 1666 further commission ordered trial to be held by 10/1666. 31/1/1667 Drummond again appealed to PC saying that her accusers had refused to attend the trial. The high court books of adjournal deserted her diet and ordered the case remitted back to the locality.
- watched?
- no
- watch date
- no information
- arrested?
- yes
- arrest date
- no information
- fled?
- no
- date absconded
- no information
- action dropped?
- no
- action dropped date
- no information
- action dropped by
- no information
- trial action body
- no information
- confronting suspects?
- no
Trial phase
- trial date
- no information
- trial place
- no information
place of trial
- settlement
- no information
- parish
- no information
- presbytery
- no information
- county
- no information
- burgh
- no information
verdict
- verdict
- no information
- defence
- no
- female accusers
- 0
- male accusers
- 0
- recorded as high status?
- no
- order for central judiciary trial
- no
- judiciary trial date
- no information
- circuit court (mixed central and local)
- no
- circuit name
- no information
- local court with central representatives
- no
- trial notes
- None
| persons associated with the trial | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| name | title | office | occupation | involvement | witchpricker? | notes |
| no recorded additional persons | ||||||
Post-trial phase
- sentence
- no information
- executed?
- no
- execution date
- no information
- execution place
- no information
- execution method
- no information
- post trial notes
- None
| other named witches | ||
|---|---|---|
| name | trial link | accused link |
| no recorded named witches | ||
Mentioned as a witch
| mentioned as a witch | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| type | name | mention date | fate | linked trialdate | trial link | notes |
| no mentions | ||||||