Wikipedia's account says she was married to a man named Baxter and had a son, Robert Baxter. The allegations were that she threatened neighbours with poverty and that this came true, that she wished harm on her son's return from travel and that he fell ill and died, and that she committed adultery and fornication in a meeting with the Devil as a man called William Twedie, in a black gown.
The health project report lists her as 71, with a reputation as a witch for forty years, and notes the accusations centred on demonic pact, malice and midwifery. She was strangled and her body burned at Dalkeith on 6 August 1661.
The record is placed at Newbattle and is approximate. A separate entry covers Beatrix Leslie, tried in the same year at Dalkeith.
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