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The trials of persons accused of complicity in the Radical uprising of 1820 were conducted under English law by judges appointed by a commission of oyer and terminer. The surviving records consist mainly of printed presentments by the grand juries in the counties concerned setting out the indictments against the accused, with MS annotations showing the verdicts and sentences at the subsequent trials. The proceedings and evidence were printed verbatim from C J Green's shorthand notes in 'Trials for High Treason in Scotland ....... in the Year 1820', 3 vols. (Edinburgh 1825) (NRS Library L47.52). See also P Beresford Ellis and Seumas Mac A'Ghobhain 'The Scottish Insurrection of 1820' (London 1970). |