Trial of Captain Porteous /
Porteous, John,-1736.
Scotland.High Court of Justiciary.
Glasgow ; Edinburgh : W. Hodge,
[1909]
Trial in 1736, in the High court of justiciary, for "murdering, slaughtering, maiming, and wounding divers of His Majesty's subjects."  cf. p. 150.
"The plot of Sir Walter Scott's 'Heart of Midlothian' turns upon the incidents of the Porteous riot."--Dictionary of national biography.
Bibliography: p. 352-366.
Roughead, William, 1870-1952.
Porteous Riots, 1736.
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