Trial of
Deacon Brodie
EDITED BY
William Roughead
Writer to the Signet
GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH
WILLIAM HODGE & COMPANY
TO
THE HONOURABLE LORD DUNDAS
THIS VOLUME
IS
BY KIND PERMISSION
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY
THE EDITOR
PREFATORY NOTE.
THE following report of this interesting trial is prepared from the original record, with additional particulars from contemporary sources. No connected account of the life of William Brodie having hitherto been attempted, the Editor has endeavoured to give in the introduction as complete a view as is now possible of his remarkable career.