Trial T/JO/769

Trial Summary
Trial RefT/JO/769
CaseDrummond,Barbara
AccusedBarbara Drummond
Location
Outcome
DefenceNo
High StatusNo
Female Accusers0
Male Accusers0
Pre-Trial
ArrestYes
Confronting SuspectsNo

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.

DatePrisonLocationFate in Prison
1665TolboothStirlingReleased
12/1664TolboothEdinburghMoved
1664DunblaneMoved
1664StirlingMoved

DateBodyTypeSeal
15/6/1665Privy CouncilJusticiary
21/6/1666Privy CouncilJusticiary
31/1/1667
7/5/1667Privy CouncilRelease
18/12/1664Privy CouncilJusticiary
22/12/1664Privy Council

PC issued letters of horning against local commissioners to either try her or be denounced and escheated themselves.

further commissioners added and ordered to try accused before 20/10/1666

commissioners ordered to appear before PC to explain why no trial had been held

ordered to be released and to attend for trial when called

Commission to hold local trial

Order to be moved from Edinburgh to Stirling for trial.

DateTypeWhere LodgedWitch Pricker
15/6/1665Suspect'sPrivy Council—
31/1/1667Family memberPrivy Council—