| Description | [? Contemporary] Copy of "Process: Procurator Phiscall against the "Egyptians" Banff 7 Nov 1700-1721. For (edited) transcription see Miscellany of the Spalding Club III. (1846) pp. 175-191 which according to John Stuart, its editor, was a "fragment of the record of the trial of a gang of gypsies at Banff in the year 1700" which was printed from the original in the possession of the Club. For editor's note see pp. xiv-xv See also Annals of Banff I. 99-113.
According to a footnote in W. Cramond's Annals of Banff I., p.101 "The official finding of the jury, with the signature of their Chancellor - James Gordon of Ardmellie - is now (1890) in a box of papers in the Advocates Library, Aberdeen, that belonged to Dr John Stuart. The record of the trial as printed in Spalding Club Miscellany III is said by Cramond to be "now lost from the Sheriff's Court records of the County of Banff, and it has been repeatedly asserted with much plausibility, but without certain proof, to have been sold with other papers by the representatives of Mr Patrick Rose, Sheriff-Clerk, to an official of the Spalding Club, Mr Imlach (Hist. of Banff) states that he had the whole of the trial, with the examination of the witnesses, copied from the town's records." |