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.
Author
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 Lords, Justice General, and Commissioners of Justiciary, ha∣ving considered the Verdict of the Assise returned against Philip Standsfield, they by the Mouth of John Leslie Dempster of Court, de∣cerned and adjudged the said Philip Standsfield to be taken upon Wed∣nesday next, being the fifteenth of February instant, to the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh, and there betwixt two and four a cloak in the afternoon to be hanged on a Gibbet till he be dead, and his Tongue to be cut out, and burnt upon a scaffold, and his Right hand to be cut off, and af∣fixt on the East-Port of Haddingtoun, and his Body to be carried to the Gallowlie betwixt Leith and Edinburgh, and there to be hanged up in Chains, and ordains his Name, Fame, Memory, and Honours to be extinct, his Arms to be riven forth, and delet out of the Books of Arms, swa that his Posterity may never have place, nor be able here∣after to bruik or joyse any Honours, Offices, Titles or Dignities within this Realm in time coming, and to have forfaulted, amitted and tint all and sundry his Lands, Heretages, Titles, Offices, Tacks, Steidings, Roums, Possessions, Goods and Gear whatsomever pertaining to him, to our Soveraign Lord, to remain perpetuallie with his Highness in Property; which was pronounced for Doom, whereupon His Majesties Advocat asked, and took Instruments.

Sic subscribitur, Linlithgow. Jo. Lockhart, David Balfour, Roger Hoge, P. Lyon.

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