Trial Details
T/LA/261 Jonet Miller
- Name of the accused
- Jonet Miller
- Associated case
- C/EGD/400 (20/9/1661)
- Trial process type
- Central 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 |
| no recorded commission | ||||
| 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 |
| None | yes | Tolbooth | Edinburgh | 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 | 15/8/1659 | Kirkliston | None |
| no | 26/8/1659 | Kirkliston | None |
other information
- Pre-trial notes
- High Court ordered her to be moved back to kirkListon for her trial, because it was too difficult to get the witnesses and assize members to Edinburgh, 19 July 1661. The ministers and elders of kirkliston ordered to appear in Edinburgh 13 august 1661. Then she appears in Edinburgh for her trial. She denied all charges at her trial. She confessed to the minister and kirk session of Kirkliston. Robert Wilson told her to confess and she wouldn't be tortured.
- watched?
- no
- watch date
- no information
- arrested?
- no
- 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
- 20/8/1661
- trial place
- no information
place of trial
- settlement
- Edinburgh
- parish
- no information
- presbytery
- no information
- county
- no information
- burgh
- no information
verdict
- verdict
- Not Guilty
- defence
- no
- female accusers
- 4
- male accusers
- 22
- recorded as high status?
- yes
- 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
- She was tried with a random group from a different area. The assize was mostly from Edinburgh, not from Kirkliston. Although another document lists several from Kirkliston, Winchburgh, Ingliston. There was an order for a trial for 20/9/1661 which may never have happened.
| persons associated with the trial | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| name | title | office | occupation | involvement | witchpricker? | notes |
| David Dunmure | Mr | substitute to lord's advocate | advocate | Prosecutor | no | Involved in cases and trials in 1661. |
| John Mowbray | None | None | merchant | Chancellor | no | Involved in trials in 1661. |
Post-trial phase
- sentence
- no information
- executed?
- no
- execution date
- no information
- execution place
- no information
- execution method
- no information
- post trial notes
- no details
| other named witches | ||
|---|---|---|
| name | trial link | accused link |
| Florentia Sym | T/JO/537 | A/JO/2741 |
| Christian Black | T/JO/412 | A/EGD/210 |
| Margaret Tasker | T/JO/534 | A/EGD/208 |
| William Knox | T/JO/535 | A/EGD/203 |
| Marion Craufurd | T/JO/533 | A/JO/2726 |
| Helen Samuel | T/JO/532 | A/JO/2727 |
| Janet Campbell | T/JO/415 | A/JO/2728 |
Mentioned as a witch
| mentioned as a witch | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| type | name | mention date | fate | linked trialdate | trial link | notes |
| no mentions | ||||||