THE TRIAL OF ARCHIBALD STEWART ESQ. LATE LORD PROVOST OF EDINBURGH, BEFORE THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY IN SCOTLAND : FOR NEGLECT OF DUTY, AND MISBEHAVIOUR IN THE EXECUTION OF HIS OFFICE, AS LORD PROVOST OF EDINBURGH, BEFORE AND AT THE TIME THE REBELS GOT POSSESSION OF THAT CITY IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 1745. EXTRACTED UNDER THE HAND OF THE CLERK OF JUSTICIARY, FROM THE BOOKS OF ADJOURNAL OF THAT COURT ; AND CONTAINING THE WHOLE PROCEDURE HAD THEREIN, FROM MR. STEWART'S FIRST APPEARANCE BEFORE THAT COURT, THE 24TH MARCH 1747, TILL HIS FINAL ACQUITTANCE THEREFROM, THE 2D NOVEMBER THEREAFTER.

[Stewart, Archibald]

Published by Edinburgh Gideon Crawfurd 1747, 1747

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1st Edition, 8vo in fours (20cm): 178pp, 203pp (1),19th Century calf. Library Label of the Earl of Minto, to the front paste-down. Printed in two separately paginated parts. The second has the drop title: Proceedings in the Second Trial of Archibald Stewart. Binding sound, with minor wear only. Excellent internally. Some browning from leather turn-ins to first and last leaves. Archibald Stewart of Mitcham MP (1697 1780) was an 18th-century Scottish merchant and politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh during the critical Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London for over a year owing to his alleged "neglect of duty" in allowing the Young Pretender's army to be safely accommodated within Edinburgh. Seller Inventory # 1604

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Title: THE TRIAL OF ARCHIBALD STEWART ESQ. LATE ...

Publisher: Edinburgh Gideon Crawfurd 1747

Publication Date: 1747

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition