Trial of Deacon Brodie. Группа авторов

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION.

       THE TRIAL

       Evidence for Prosecution.

       Declarations of George Smith.

       Declaration of William Brodie.

       COPY OF AN ACCOUNT OR STATE, IN THE HANDWRITING OF WILLIAM BRODIE, FOUNDED ON IN THE INDICTMENT. (Hitherto Unpublished.)

       Evidence for Defence.

       The Lord Advocate’s Address to the Jury.

       Mr. John Clerk’s Address to the Jury.

       The Dean of Faculty’s Address to the Jury.

       The Lord Justice-Clerk’s Charge to the Jury.

       The Trial. Second Day—Thursday, 28th August, 1788.

       Address to the Prisoners and Sentence.

       APPENDIX I.

       APPENDIX II.

       APPENDIX III.

       APPENDIX IV.

       APPENDIX V.

       APPENDIX VI.

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       II.

       APPENDIX VII.

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       III.

       IV.

       V.

       VI.

       VII.

       VIII.

       IX.

       X.

       XI.

       XII.

       XIII.

       XIV.

       APPENDIX VIII.

       APPENDIX IX.

       APPENDIX X.

       APPENDIX XI.

       APPENDIX XII.

       APPENDIX XIII.

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       II.

       APPENDIX XIV.

       APPENDIX XV.

       APPENDIX XVI.

       APPENDIX XVII.

INTRODUCTION.

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      FEW cities have preserved more faithfully than Edinburgh the traditions of former days, and none is richer in the material of romance. Throughout the length of the Royal mile extending from Holyrood to the Castle Hill, each tortuous wynd and narrow close owns its peculiar association, each obscure court and towering “land” has contributed, if but by a footnote, to the volume of the city’s history. And where these visible memorials have perished beneath the slow assault of time, or succumbed to the more lethal methods of modern improvement, the legends which they embodied survive their dissolution and serve in turn to perpetuate their fame.

      Of the many memories that haunt the lover of old Edinburgh, wandering to-day among the vestiges of her romantic and insanitary past, perhaps the most curious is that of William Brodie, Deacon of the Wrights and doyen of the double life; by