| 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 | 30/12/1634 | None | None |
| 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 |
| no recorded complaints | |||||
| 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 |
| 18/12/1634 | no | Tolbooth | Haddington | no |
| tortures | |
|---|---|
| date of torture | torture type |
| None | Stocks |
| ordeals | |
|---|---|
| date of ordeal | ordeal type |
| no recorded ordeals | |
| confessions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| central trial confession | date | location | notes |
| no | None | None | None |
other information
- Pre-trial notes
- She was first arrested for trying to kill herself. When in prison they asked her why she tried to kill herself. She said she had murdered her first husband and her daughter and turned to the Devil. She confessed it all to the ministers and baillies of Haddington.
- watched?
- no
- watch date
- no information
- arrested?
- yes
- arrest date
- 18/12/1634
- 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
- 6/1/1635
- trial place
- Tolbooth
place of trial
- settlement
- no information
- parish
- P/JO/3539
- presbytery
- Haddington
- county
- Haddington
- burgh
- Haddington
verdict
- verdict
- Guilty
- 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 |
| John Wilkie | None | Procurator Fiscal | notary | Prosecutor | no | Involved in trial in 1635. |
| James Neilson | None | None | None | Chancellor | no | Involved in trial in 1635 |
Post-trial phase
- sentence
- Execution
- executed?
- yes
- execution date
- no information
- execution place
- no information
- execution method
- Strangle & Burn
- post trial notes
- To be executed at the usual place.
| 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 | ||||||