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June 16th, 2013
Broadside entitled ‘Trial and acquittal’
This report begins: ‘The trial of Mr. James Stuart who was tried at the High Court of Justiciary, for being art and part in a duel in which Sir Alexander Boswell lost his life?’. Read more...June 16th, 2013
Broadside entitled ‘Fatal Duel’
This report of a duel begins: ‘Just published, an Account of that Melancholy and Fatal DUEL, that took place between the Right Honourable the Earl of Eglinton and Captain Gorbon, concerning a Lady of high respectibility, when dreadful to relate his Lordship was shot though the heart.’ The story was sourced from the ‘Greenock Intelligencer’. [...] Read more...June 16th, 2013
Broadside entitled ‘Duel Extraordinary!’
This entertaining story begins: ‘Account of another DUEL, that took place on Wednesday last, 18th April, in the neighbourhood of Pennycuick, county of Edinburgh ; when one of the Parties was mortally wounded.’ Read more...Regular posts
June 16th, 2013
Broadside entitled ‘Life, Sufferings, and Death of Janet Fleming’
This narrative begins: ‘Daughter of a respectable Farmer near Dunse who was seduced by a profligate young Nobleman – - brought to Edinburgh, and kept in the greatest splendour [f]or sometime and then cruelly deserted and thrown upon the town’. A bedside-mourning woodcut has been included in the middle of the page to heighten the [...] Read more...June 16th, 2013
Broadside entitled ‘The Whores of Edinburgh’s Lament for want of Luckie Spence’
This lament begins: ‘TWice Sixteen Years hath over past, / Once sixteen more may prove our last, / Our Tender Yers in Lucky’s service spent, / So pleasantly we can scarce Repent’. At the bottom of the sheet is a short verse entitled ‘Luckie’s Last Words’. Read more...June 16th, 2013
Broadside regarding the arrival of sporting ladies in Edinburgh
This broadside begins: ‘A LIST of the SPORTING LADIES, Who are arrived in EDINBURGH, from all the different Towns in the Three Kingdoms, to take their Pleasure at KELSO RACES.’ A note at the bottom of the sheet reads, ‘Those who want any of the above Ladies, may call for them at Moffat’s Close, High [...] Read more...June 16th, 2013
Broadside entitled ‘Elegy and Epitaph’
This memorial notice begins: ‘Elegy and Epitaph on Thomas Williams, Late Dempster, or Hangman, of the City of Edinburgh’. The dedication under the title begins: ‘Who died the 5th of January 1833, aged 66 years. He was upwards of 12 years in that capacity, and conducted himself with wonderful propriety, which few does in his [...] Read more...June 16th, 2013
Broadside entitled ‘Execution’
This execution report begins: ‘A Full, Authentic, and Particular Account of the Execution of PETER HAEMAN and FRANCOIS GAUTIEZ, who were Hanged . . . on Wednesday the 9th January, 1822, for the Piratical seizure of the Schooner Jane of Gibraltar . . . and for the Barbarous Murder of Thomas Johnson, master, and James [...] Read more...June 16th, 2013
Broadside entitled ‘Execution’
This execution report begins: ‘An account of the Execution of two Servant Girls, Bridget Butterfly and Bridget Ennis, who suffered at Kilmainham Jail, on Friday the 4th of May, 1821, and their bodies given to Surgeon’s Hall, for dissection, for the murder of Miss Thompson, a young lady, in whose house they once lived; to [...] Read more...June 16th, 2013
