Author: Salmon, Thomas and Sollom Emlyn
Title: A Complete Collection of State-Trials and Proceedings Upon High-Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours; from the Reign of King Richard II. To the End of the Reign of King George I: The Third Volume (1679-1684); (with Two Alphabetical Tables to the Whole)
Description: London, England, Printed for the undertakers, J. Walthoe Sen. and jun. ; Thomas Wotton, Charles Bathurst, Jacob and Richard Tonson, and the representatives of John Darby .. and also for J. Basket .. [and 29 others], 1742. Third Edition, with Additions. Leather-bound. Large folio.The third of six volumes of this series. Some latter-day restoration and reconstitution by conservator. Full calf. Six raised bands. Black spine label in gilt, with gilt date stamped at spine's bottom. All edges stained red, as published. Title page in red and black. Contains transcripts of sundry trials for high treason, murder and attempted murder, assault and battery, perjury, inciting a riot, outlawry, false arrest, and, (only a!) misdemeanor -- the debauching of (Lady Henrietta Berkeley) by Ford Lord Grey; the debauched Lady Henrietta was the sister of Grey's wife, who claimed to love Grey, and ran away with Grey. "And ajudged the said Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood to be taken to the Mercat Cross of Edinburgh, this twenty fourth Day of December instant, betwixt Two and Four a Clock in the Afternoon, and there to be hanged on a Gibbet till he be dead; and his Head to be cut off, and his Body to be Quartered in four, and his Head to be affixed on the Tolbooth of Lanerk, a third on the Tolbooth of Air, and a fourth on the Tolbooth of Glasgow; and ordains his Name, Fame, Memory, and Honours to be extinct; his Blood to be tainted, and his Arms to be riven forth, and delete out of the Book of Arms; so that his Posterity may never have Place, nor be able hereafter to Bruik, or joyse any Honours, Offices, Titles or Dignities, within this Realm in time coming; and to have forfaulted, amitted and tint, all and sundry his Lands, Heritages, Tacks, Steadings, Rooms, Possessions, Goods and Gear whatsoever, pertaining to him, to our Sovereign Lord's Use, to remain perpetually with His Highness in Property, which was pronounced for Doom..He was executed accordingly the same Day; and at the place of Execution persisted in denying his Knowledge ofany design against the King's Life, or the . Duke's, or of any Plot against the Government; He owned, he thought it lawful for Subjects, being under such Pressurers, to try how they might be relieved from them, and his design went no farther; but he refused to enter into particulars. Afterwards, in pursuance of the Sentence, His Majesty's Heralds, and Pursevants, with their Coats displayed (after sound of Trumpets) did publickly, in face . of theCourt, confirm to the Custom in the sentences of Treason, in his . Majesty's Name and Authority, cancel, tear and destroy the said Mr. Robert Bailliehis Arms, threw them in his Face, trampled them under foot; and ordained his Arms to be expunged our of the Books of Heraldry, his Posterity to be ignoble, and never to enjoy Yonour and Dignity in time coming..Mr. Robert Baillie late of Jerviswood Traytor. Very Good Plus .

Keywords: British Justice, British Crimes, British Law, Criminal Trials in 17th Century Britain.