Iohn Topping in Monkrig, aged 25 years, married, purged and sworn; Depones that upon the Sabbath-morning after Sir James Standsfield's Death, the Deponent coming from Monkrig to New-milns, by the side
The tryal of Philip Standsfield, son to Sir James Standsfield, of New-Milns;: for the murder of his father, and other crimes libel'd against him. / Published by authority.
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- The tryal of Philip Standsfield, son to Sir James Standsfield, of New-Milns;: for the murder of his father, and other crimes libel'd against him. / Published by authority.
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- Standsfield, Philip, defendant. d. 1688,
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- Edinburgh :: Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to the King's most Sacred Majesty,
- Anno Dom. 1688.
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- Trials (Treason) -- Scotland.
- Trials (Murder) -- Scotland.
- Standsfield, Philip, -- d. 1688,
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"The tryal of Philip Standsfield, son to Sir James Standsfield, of New-Milns;: for the murder of his father, and other crimes libel'd against him. / Published by authority." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A94853.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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of the water, he discovered a Body floating, and saw Philip Stands∣field looking to that place of the water where the Body was, and the De∣ponent asked the Pannal, whose Body that was in the water? And the Pannal made no answer; and when he came to New-milns, he heard that Sir James's Body was found in the water; Depones he saw the Bo∣dy taken out of the water, and went alongst with it, near to the Walk-miln, but observed no water come from the Body. This is the Truth as he shal answer to God. Depones he cannot write. Sic sub∣scribitur.
Linlithgow.