Late speech and testimony of William Gogor, one of three desperate and incorrigible traytors, execute at the Grass Mercat in Edinburgh, the eleventh day of March, 1681
| Broadsides from the Crawford Collection > Late speech and testimony of William Gogor, one of three desperate and incorrigible traytors, execute at the Grass Mercat in Edinburgh, the eleventh day of March, 1681 |
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| Description | For disowning his sacred Majesties authority; and owning and adhering to these bloody and murdering principles, contained in that execrable declaration at Sanquhar, Cargils traiterous covenant, and sacrilegious excommunicating of the King, by that arch-traitor Cargil, and avowing of themselves to be bound in conscience, and by their covenant, to murder the King, and all that serve under him; being armed (the time they were apprehended) for that purpose.. |
| Shelfmark | CRAWFORD.MB.197 |
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| Description | Around 2,200 items dating from 1505 to 1897. Broadsides were originally cheap, single sheets of text, sometimes with woodcuts. Extremely varied subject matter, including proclamations, news items, scaffold speeches, satires, political and religious controversies, and Jacobite risings. Also military campaigns, such as Napoleon's threatened invasion of England in 1803. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust. |
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