Edinburgh, 29th November, 1720. Sederunt. John Wightman, George Preston, Robert Grierson, Hugh Hathorn, baillies, and justices of His Majesty's peace - Broadsides from the Crawford Collection

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Edinburgh, 29th November, 1720. Sederunt. John Wightman, George Preston, Robert Grierson, Hugh Hathorn, baillies, and justices of His Majesty's peace

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CRAWFORD.MB.1969

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Form / genre:

Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides

Dates / events:

1720 [Probable date printed]

Places:

Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh > Edinburgh (inhabited place) [Probable place printed]

Subject / content:

Soldiers
Police
Swearing

Person / organisation:

Edinburgh (Scotland). Magistrates [Author]

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Broadsides from the Crawford Collection

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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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Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balca