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Appin Murder (The).

The Trial of James Stewart in Aucharn in Duror of Appin, for the Murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure, Esq; Factor of His Majesty on the Forfeited estate of Ardshiel: before the Circuit Court of Justiciary held at Inveraray;. by His Grace the Duke of Argyll [Archibald Campell, third Duke], Lord Justice General, and the Lords Elchies and Kilkerran, Commissioners of Justiciary.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh: Printed for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, - 1753.,

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Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, Royaume-Uni)

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Auteur
Appin Murder (The).
Éditeurs
Edinburgh: Edinburgh: Printed for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour,, 1753.
Thème
LAW CRIME MURDER TRIAL SCOTLAND SCOTTISH HISTORY

Description

First edition, [4], 288, 149, [1]pp., folding engraved map, Birmingham Law Society stamp on title, recent half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco title label. The Appin Murder occurred on 14 May 1752 near Appin in the west of Scotland, and it resulted in what is often held to be a notorious miscarriage of justice. It occurred in the tumultuous aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. The murder inspired events in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped.
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