The coblers' tears! : An elelgy on the much lamented death of Jock Hiegh, who departed to other climes, October 20th, 1816, after being thirty-six years hangman of Edinburgh.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL.
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1816]
In prose and verse.
John or Jock Heich, Hiegh, or more properly High, was appointed Edinburgh's hangman in 1778, supposedly in return for dropping the charge of stealing chickens. During his tenure, he oversaw more than 40 hangings and was twice awarded a pay rise. He was buried in Greyfriars churchyard upon his death in 1816.
Provenance: Bound in a volume carrying the inscription 'This collection is understood to have been formed by the late James Maidment and it has been added to by me. John A. Fairley' on first fly-leaf.
Executions and executioners
Elegiac poetry