Criminal Trials. The Following Persons are Indicted to be tried before the Circuit Court of Justiciary, at Glasgow, 27th of April, 1819. In Glasgow Jail / From Renfrewshire. Broadside.
Glasgow: John Muir, 1819. First printing. Ephemera. A broadside issued for the court in Glasgow for the session held 27th April 1819. Not recorded on OCLC, Trove, National Library of Scotland, but possibly held by the University of Glasgow, cited on Copac (without detail).
Eight of those tried at Glasgow & Renfrewshire were transported to Australia on board the Eliza which sailed on 22nd September 1819. They include:
James Robertson, Duncan Campbell & Peter Vaughan (house breaking and theft)
John Ballantine (house breaking and theft)
John Morrison & William Maxwell (theft & reset of theft)
Matthew Gillespie (house breaking and theft)
John Yates (Yeates) (house breaking and theft, and being habit and reputed a thief).
Text 26 x 8 cm on tissue 28.5 x 11 cm, backed on 38.5 x 15 cm. Evenly tanned. Very good overall. Item #27669
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