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Account of the trial of Captain John Porteous [104184501]

Date printed: 1736
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Tryal of Richard Francklin [104184531]

Printer: Hamilton, Gavin, 1703-1767

Date printed: 1731
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Trials
Permanent URLhttps://digital.nls.uk/116860047
Chapbooks printed in Scotland
DescriptionOver 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides.
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