References
Primary Sources
National Archives Scotland, Edinburgh
Justiciary Court Records
JC8 High Court Minute Books Series E Folios 1 to 44.
JC11 North Circuit Minute Books Folios 44 to 88.
JC12 South Circuit Minute Books Folios 23 to 45.
JC13 West Circuit Minute Books Folios 31 to 82.
National Archives, Kew
Home Office Papers.
HO102 Home Office : Scotland Correspondence and Papers Folios 54 to 58.
HO104 Home Office : Scotland : Criminal Entry Books Folios 3 to 10.
Secondary Sources
Alison, A., Principles of the Criminal Law of Scotland, Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1832.
Bennett, R., Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland 1740 to 1834, Unpublished Doctoral Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016.
Boyle, M., Metropolitan Anxieties : On the Meaning of the Irish Catholic Adventure in Scotland, London, Routledge, 2011.
Chase, M., 1820 : Disorder and Stability in the United Kingdom, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2013.
Cockburn, H., Circuit Journeys, Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1889.
Crowther, M.A., “Crime, Prosecution and Mercy : English Influence and Scottish Practice in the Early Nineteenth Century”, in Connolly, S.J. (Ed.) Kingdom’s United ? Great Britain and Ireland since 1500, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1999, pp. 225-238.
Devereaux, S., “Recasting the Theatre of Execution : The Abolition of the Tyburn Ritual”, Past and Present, 2009, 202, pp. 127-174.
Donnachie, I., “The Darker Side : A Speculative Survey of Scottish Crime During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of Scotland, 1995, 15, pp. 5-24.
Emsley, C., Crime and Society in England 1750-1900, (4th Edition), London, Routledge, 2013.
Evans, R.J., Rituals of Retribution ; Capital Punishment in Germany 1600-1987, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Fielding, H., An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, With Some Proposals for Remedying This Growing Evil, London, 1751.
Flanders, J., The Invention of Murder : How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, London, Harper Press, 2011.
Friedland, P., Seeing Justice Done : The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014.
Gatrell, V.A.C., The Hanging Tree ; Execution and the English People 1770-1868, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994.
Home, H., Statute Law of Scotland Abridged with Historical Notes, Edinburgh, 1757.
Hume, D., Commentaries on the Law of Scotland Respecting Crimes Volumes 1 and 2, Edinburgh, Bell and Bradfute, 1819.
Kilday, A.M., “Contemplating the Evil Within : Examining Attitudes to Criminality in Scotland 1700-1840”, in Lemmings, D. (Ed.) Crime, Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain 1700-1850, Surrey, Ashgate, 2012, pp. 147-166.
Kilday, A.M., “Hell-Raising and Hair-Razing : Violent Robbery in Nineteenth-Century Scotland”, Scottish Historical Review, 2013, 92, pp. 255-274.
King, P., Crime, Justice and Discretion in England 1740-1820, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.
King, P., “Urbanisation, Rising Homicide Rates and the Geography of Lethal Violence in Scotland 1800-1860”, History, 2011, 96, pp. 231-259.
King, P. & Ward, R., “Rethinking the Bloody Code in Eighteenth-Century Britain : Capital Punishment at the Centre and on the Periphery”, Past and Present, 2015, 228, pp. 159-205.
Knox, W.W.J. & Thomas, L., “Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Scotland : Numbers and Theories”, The Scottish Historical Review, 2015, 94, pp. 48-73.
Laqueur, T., “Crowds, Carnival and the State in English Executions, 1604-1868”, in Beier, A.L., Cannadine, D. & Rosenheim, J.M. (Eds.), The First Modern Society ; Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 305-355.
Lemmings, D., “Negotiating Justice in the New Public Sphere : Crime, the Courts and the Press in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain”, in Lemmings, D. (Ed.) Crime, Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain 1700-1850, Surrey, Ashgate, 2012, pp. 119-145.
Linebaugh, P., The London Hanged : Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, London, Penguin Press, 1991.
Louthian, J., The Form of Process before the Court of Justiciary in Scotland, Edinburgh, 1732.
McGowen, R., “Civilising Punishment : The End of the Public Execution in England”, Journal of British Studies, 1994, 33, pp. 257-282.
McGowen, R., “Making Examples and the Crisis of Punishment in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England”, in Lemmings, D., (Ed.) The British and their Laws in the Eighteenth Century, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2005, pp. 182-205.
Poole, S., “A Lasting and Salutary Warning : Incendiarism, Rural Order and England’s Last Scene of Crime Execution”, Rural History, 2008, 19, pp. 163-177.
Poole, S., “For the Benefit of Example : Crime Scene Executions in England, 1720-1830”, in Ward, R. (Ed.) A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2015, pp. 71-101.
Pratt, J., Punishment and Civilisation, London, SAGE Publications, 2002.
Riggs, P.T., “Prosecutors, Juries, Judges and Punishment in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland”, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 2012, 32, pp. 166-189.
Ward, R., “Print Culture, Moral Panic, and the Administration of the Law : The London Crime Wave of 1744”, Crime, History and Societies, 2012, 16, pp. 5-24.
Young, A.F., The Encyclopaedia of Scottish Executions, 1750-1963, Kent, Eric Dobby Publishing, 1998.
Online Sources
British Library Newspaper Archive [http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk]
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers [http://parlipapers.chadwyck.co.uk]
The Word on the Street [http://www.digital.nls.uk/broadsides]