Trial Details
T/LA/479 Katherene Crystie
- Name of the accused
- Katherene Crystie
- Associated case
- C/EGD/1005 (11/11/1630)
- 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 | Interrogation and Arrest | 17/11/1627 | signet | None |
| Privy Council | Suspension of Justiciary | 6/12/1627 | None | None |
| Privy Council | Investigation | 28/11/1627 | None | caution for her to appear before the kirk session of Dysart or the Presbytery |
| 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 | no | Tolbooth | Dysart | 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
- The PC ordered her to appear before the kirk sesion of Dysart or the presbytery of Kirkcaldy for questioning. She was originally arrested under a commission from 1627. She complained, and the trial was to be moved to Edinburgh and she was to be released until summond for trial. The previous commission against her was then suspended. Her accuser was brought before the kirk session and made to publically renounce having called her a witch. She claimed it was an alliance of town councillors and bailies against her.
- watched?
- no
- watch date
- no information
- arrested?
- yes
- arrest date
- 1627
- 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
- 1627
- trial place
- no information
place of trial
- settlement
- no information
- parish
- no information
- presbytery
- Kirkcaldy
- county
- Fife
- burgh
- Dysart
verdict
- verdict
- Not 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
- She was tried by people from the Presbytery of Kirkcaldy and the kirk session of Dysart. Her accuser had to make a supplication to the kirk session for having wronged her.
| 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 | ||||||