Mr. Roderick Mckenzie Advocate, Being solemnly Sworn, and Purged, depones, that about eight dayes before Sir James Standfield's Death; The Deponent and he having met in the Parliament Closs, the Defunct invited him to take his morning Draught. And when they were gone to Mr. Sheil's House, the Deponent perceiving him to be in some concern, the Deponent asked him, what troubled him? The Defunct answered, that he had no sa∣tisfaction at Home; whereupon the Deponent said, that People reported that he was partly the occasion of it, having disherished his Son the Pan∣nal, and acquainted him therewith: And the Defunct answered, ye do not know my Son, for he is the greatest Debauch in the Earth: And that which
The tryal of Philip Standsfield, son to Sir James Standsfield of New-Milns for the murther of his father, and other crimes libell'd against him, Feb. 7. 1688. For which he had judgment, that on the [15th ...] betwixt the hours of two and four in the afternoon, to be carried to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and hang'd on a gibbet, until he be dead; his tongue to be cut out and burnt on a scaffold; and his right-hand to be cut off, and affixt on the east gate of Hedington, and his body to be hung in chains. Which doom and sentence was accordingly put to due execution upon the said Philip Standsfield. Published by authority.
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- The tryal of Philip Standsfield, son to Sir James Standsfield of New-Milns for the murther of his father, and other crimes libell'd against him, Feb. 7. 1688. For which he had judgment, that on the [15th ...] betwixt the hours of two and four in the afternoon, to be carried to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and hang'd on a gibbet, until he be dead; his tongue to be cut out and burnt on a scaffold; and his right-hand to be cut off, and affixt on the east gate of Hedington, and his body to be hung in chains. Which doom and sentence was accordingly put to due execution upon the said Philip Standsfield. Published by authority.
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"The tryal of Philip Standsfield, son to Sir James Standsfield of New-Milns for the murther of his father, and other crimes libell'd against him, Feb. 7. 1688. For which he had judgment, that on the [15th ...] betwixt the hours of two and four in the afternoon, to be carried to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, and hang'd on a gibbet, until he be dead; his tongue to be cut out and burnt on a scaffold; and his right-hand to be cut off, and affixt on the east gate of Hedington, and his body to be hung in chains. Which doom and sentence was accordingly put to due execution upon the said Philip Standsfield. Published by authority." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63189.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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troubles me most is, that he twice attempted my own Person: And this is the truth as he shall answer to God,
Sic subscribitur. Rod. Mckenzie.