Author: SKIRVING, WILLIAM. ( Scottish Martys).
Title: The Trial of William Skirving, secretary to the British Convention, before the High Court of Justiciary, On the 6th and 7th January, 1794; For SEDITION. Containing a full and circumstantial account of all the Proceedings and Speeches, as taken down in Short-Hand, by Mr. Ramsey, Short-Hand Writer, from London.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. ii, 168; frontispiece portrait, contemporary half leather binding, marbled boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, bookplate of Nancye Kent Perry on front fixed endpaper, frontispiece reinforced and repaired otherwise a good tight copy. Edinburgh Printed; James Robertson; 1794. Rare contemporary account of the trial, Skirving was transported to Australia for Sedition, he arrived in Port Jackson in 1794, and was granted a farm in present day Petersham. Ferguson 197.
Keywords: Scottish Martyrs famous Trials Legal New South Wales Early Settlement
Title: The Trial of William Skirving, secretary to the British Convention, before the High Court of Justiciary, On the 6th and 7th January, 1794; For SEDITION. Containing a full and circumstantial account of all the Proceedings and Speeches, as taken down in Short-Hand, by Mr. Ramsey, Short-Hand Writer, from London.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. ii, 168; frontispiece portrait, contemporary half leather binding, marbled boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, bookplate of Nancye Kent Perry on front fixed endpaper, frontispiece reinforced and repaired otherwise a good tight copy. Edinburgh Printed; James Robertson; 1794. Rare contemporary account of the trial, Skirving was transported to Australia for Sedition, he arrived in Port Jackson in 1794, and was granted a farm in present day Petersham. Ferguson 197.
Keywords: Scottish Martyrs famous Trials Legal New South Wales Early Settlement
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- Book number: 101243
- Book number: 101243