Notable Scottish Trials

Deacon Brodie

PRINTED BY
WILLIAM HODGE AND COMPANY
GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH
1906

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The first meeting of Deacon Brodie and George Smith.
(After Kay.)

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Trial of
Deacon Brodie

EDITED BY
William   Roughead
Writer to the Signet





GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH
WILLIAM HODGE & COMPANY

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TO
THE HONOURABLE LORD DUNDAS
THIS VOLUME
IS
BY KIND PERMISSION
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY
THE EDITOR

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PREFATORY NOTE.

THE following report of this interesting trial is prepared from theoriginal record, with additional particulars from contemporary sources.No connected account of the life of William Brodie having hitherto beenattempted, the Editor has endeavoured to give in the introduction ascomplete a view as is now possible of his remarkable career.

To Sheriff Moffatt, Lanark, and Mr. William Brown and Mr. John A.Fairley, Edinburgh, the Editor is under obligation for the use of MSS.,books, and prints in connection with the subject. His thanks are alsodue to Dr. Joseph Anderson, Keeper of the Scottish National Museum ofAntiquities, who has allowed him to photograph Deacon Brodie’s lanternand keys and to make excerpts from the records of the Cape Club. Forpermission to publish for the first time facsimiles of Brodie’s letterto the Duchess of Buccleuch and the MS. register in his Family Bible,the Editor is respectively indebted to the courtesy of Mr. AlexanderAnderson, Librarian of the Edinburgh University Library, and the Plansand Works Committee of Edinburgh Town Council.

Mr. Bruce J. Home has not only kindly permitted the reproduction of twodrawings from his well-known work, “Old Houses in Edinburgh,” but hasmade a drawing of the old Excise Office, Chessel’s Court, expressly forthe present volume.

W. R.

Edinburgh, November, 1906.

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CONTENTS.