Chapter III: A List of Publications on the Subject of or having Reference to

the Trial of Deacon Brodie, 232

IV. The Brodie Family Bible, 238

V. Excerpts from the Records of the Cape Club, 243

VI. Excerpts from the Guild Registers of the Burgh of Edinburgh, 245

VII. Excerpts from the Records of the Edinburgh Town Council, 246

VIII. Advertisements relating to certain of the Robberies committed by Deacon Brodie, 251

IX. Narrative of the Facts respecting the Robbery of Bruces’ shop, 257

X. State of the Process at the instance of John Hamilton, 262

XI. An Account of Mr. Brodie’s being seized at Amsterdam, 264

XII. The Journal of Mr. Groves, 265

XIII. Copies of Two Autograph Letters of Deacon Brodie, 268

XIV. Speech which George Smith intended to have made at his Trial, 270

XV. An Account of the Execution of the Prisoners, 272

XVI. The Old Excise Office, 277

XVII. An Account of the Proceedings against John Brown, _alias_ Humphry Moore, at the Old Bailey, in April, 1784, 278

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

The first meeting of Deacon Brodie and George Smith, _Frontispiece_

Foot of Brodie’s Close, Cowgate, _facing page_ 12

Cock-fighting Match between the Counties of Lanark and Haddington in 1785, 15

Head of Brodie’s Close, Lawnmarket, 25

The Old Excise Office, Chessel’s Court, Canongate, 31

Deacon Brodie’s Dark Lanthorn and False Keys, 43

George Williamson, King’s Messenger for Scotland, 50

George Smith at the Bar, 55

The Old Tolbooth of Edinburgh, 62

Deacon Brodie, 66

The Solicitor-General (Robert Dundas), 81

Lord Hailes, 105

Lord Eskgrove, 113

Lord Stonefield, 130

Charles Hay (afterwards Lord Newton), 160

The Lord Advocate (Ilay Campbell), 165

John Clerk (afterwards Lord Eldin), 174

The Dean of Faculty (Hon. Henry Erskine), 181

The Lord Justice-Clerk (Lord Braxfield), 197

Facsimile of first page of MS. Register in the Brodie Family Bible, 238

Facsimile of Deacon Brodie’s Letter to the Duchess of Buccleuch, 269

DEACON BRODIE.