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	JOHN PORTEOUS - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN PORTEOUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Having served in the army, he was employed in 1715 to drill the city guard for the defence of Edinburgh in anticipation of a Jacobite rising, and was promoted later to the command of the force.
		Porteous, who was said to have fired at the people with his own hand, was brought to trial and sentenced, to death.
		The incident of the Porteous riots was used by Sir Walter Scott in The Heart of Midlothian.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/PORTEOUS_JOHN.htm (303 words)

	Porteous Riots - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		As Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh, Captain John Porteous was charged with keeping the peace and when, in April 1736, two convicted smugglers were due to be publicly hanged, the public outcry was such that the hangman had to be placed in protective custody.
		For this offence, Porteous himself was eventually tried in the High Court of Justiciary and found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.
		Although later granted a Royal Pardon, Captain Porteous was dragged out to be cruelly tortured and lynched at the hands of an angry mob.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Captain_John_Porteous (309 words)

	PORTEOUS, JOHN. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was captain of the Edinburgh town guard at the execution (1736) of Andrew Wilson, a smuggler.
		Porteous was tried and sentenced to death, but his execution was postponed.
		On Sept. 7, 1736, an indignant mob took him from prison and hanged him, a crime for which no one was brought to justice despite the efforts of the government.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/po/Porteous.html (94 words)

	John Porteous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Captain John Porteous (died 1736) was Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh during the riots of 1736.
		As Captain of the City Guard, Porteous was charged with keeping the peace and when, in April 1736, two convicted smugglers were due to be publicly hanged, the public outcry was such that the hangman had to be placed in protective custody.
		Although later granted a Royal Pardon, Captain Porteous was dragged out to be cruelly tortured and lynched himself at the hands of an angry mob.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/john_porteous (276 words)

	Porteous Riots -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For this offence, Porteous himself was eventually tried in the (Click link for more info and facts about High Court of Justiciary) High Court of Justiciary and found guilty of (Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being) murder and sentenced to (The event of dying or departure from life) death.
		John Porteous had been an early exponent of the game of (A game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes) golf.
		A detailed account of the so-called Porteous Riots of 1736 is given by (British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832)) Sir Walter Scott in his novel The Heart of Midlothian (1818).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Po/Porteous_Riots.htm (321 words)

	The Newgate Calendar - CAPTAIN JOHN PORTEOUS
		John Porteous was born of indigent parents, near the city Edinburgh, who bound him apprentice to a tailor, with who after the expiration of his apprenticeship, he worked as journeyman.
		Porteous being apprehensive that an attempt would be made to rescue the prisoner, represented to the provost the necessity there was for soldiers to be drawn up ready to preserve the peace.
		Porteous, being assisted by the Welsh fusiliers, at last conducted his men to the guard, when, being sent for by the provost, he passed a long examination, and was committed to prison in order to take his trial for murder.
	www.exclassics.com /newgate/ng187.htm (1724 words)

	The Porteous Riots. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Captain Porteous was later accused of murder, tried and sentenced to death but was later reprieved.
		The story moves between the tall buildings and narrow alleys of Edinburgh, the hills and valleys of the countryside south of Edinburgh and the fishing village of Prestonpans.
		It moves at a rapid pace until the final climax during the riots and lynching of Captain Porteous.
	www.marysmoffat.co.uk /bibliography/eight/port.htm (500 words)

	PRIVATE When the Heart of Midlothian met the culture of retribution
		Captain John Porteous of the Edinburgh Town Guard possessed a negative reputation, mainly for his temper.
		Captain John Porteous was not a victim of a random act of violence or a breakdown of law and order, but the imposition of a new law and order by a group, which had a specific, limited goal in mind.
		“Petition of John Porteous, 1716” in Roughead 219.
	www.louisville.edu /a-s/history/pat/nuxiwilkins.htm (5415 words)

	THE NOVELS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT - THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN
		Captain John Porteous, a name memorable in the traditions of Edinburgh, as well as in the records of criminal jurisprudence, was the son of a citizen of Edinburgh, who endeavoured to breed him up to his own mechanical trade of a tailor.
		Captain Porteous resented, as an indignity, the introducing the Welsh Fusileers within the city, and drawing them up in the street where no drums but his own were allowed to be sounded without the special command or permission of the magistrates.
		Captain Porteous was wrought, by this appearance of insurrection against his authority, into a rage so headlong as made him forget, that, the sentence having been fully executed, it was his duty not to engage in hostilities with the misguided multitude, but to draw off his men as fast as possible.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/Stella/STARN/prose/WSCOTT/HEARTMID/chap2.htm (1850 words)

	Porteous Research Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It has been suggested by Buchan that John Porteous could have born into a branch of the Hawkshaw Porteous family, but this seems to be pure conjecture.
		The Porteous family had been resident on the island of St Helena since 1787, but the family left shortly after the death of Henry Porteous in 1819, at the age of 57.
		Captain Pat Porteous was awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military honour, first instituted by Queen Victoria in 1856, for his part in the 1942 assault on Dieppe in the Second World War.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /bruceporteous/research/famous.html (2337 words)

	Encyclopedia: Porteous family
		The earliest possible reference, according to Lord Lyon King of Arms in Edinburgh, is to a Guillaume Porteuse (later William Porteous), who arrived from Normandy c 1400 under the patronship of the wealthy Fraise family (later to become the Frasers).
		A line of these so-called Peel towers was built in the 1430s across the Tweed valley from Berwick to its source, as a response to the dangers of invasion from the English borders.
		Families were tempted by the offer of employment in the fast growing industries which had burgeoned with the coming of the Industrial Revolution and the promise of a higher standard of living.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Porteous-family (521 words)

	PORTER, BENJAMIN CURTIS STANNARD, JOSEPH - LoveToKnow Article on PORTER, BENJAMIN CURTIS STANNARD, JOSEPH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1836 it was made a free warehousing port, and in 1837 the capital of a small adjacent district.
		To overcome the difficulty of landing from the roadstead a breakwater was built at the mouth of the Baakens River in 1856, but it had to be removed in 1869, as it caused a serious accumulation of sand.
		The prosperity which followed the construction of railways to the interior earned for the port the designation of " the Liverpool of South Africa." Railway work was begun in 1873 and Port Elizabeth is now in direct communication with all other parts of South Africa.
	1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/PORTER_BENJAMIN_CURTIS_STANNARD_JOSEPH.htm (768 words)

	Churches Since The Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Kingan, licensed by Presbytery of Kirkcudbright; called in consequence of the jus devolutum, 1760; died 9th February 1781, in 59th year and 21st ministry.
		This Rev. John Thomson was the father of the Rev. Andrew Thomson, of St George's, Edinburgh, who was born in the old house on the margin of the River Nith.
		The Rev. John Hepburn, inducted in 1680 as incumbent of the parish of Urr, is regarded as the originator of the Secession movement in the south of Scotland.
	www.crawford-john.org.uk /churches.htm (5239 words)

	PORTEOUS ASSOCIATES
		James Porteous was incarcerated, in 1650, in Spedlins Tower, where he starved to death, his ghost ‘Dunty’ is said to be kept at bay by the Spedlins bible of the Jardine Clan.
		Captain John Porteous, Captain of the Edinburgh City Guard in 1736 was hanged by a mob in the Grassmarket, this act was to become the centre piece of Sir Walter Scott’s classic "Heart of the Midlothian".
		Porteous Associates was formed in Canada in 1976 to bring together all Porteous families around the world, assistance in correlation of all centrallised information is given to bring branch's of the same family together.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~rgporteousaustralia (1124 words)

	Captain John Porteous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As Captain of the City Guard, Porteous was charged with keeping the peace and when, in April 1736, two convicted smugglerswere due to be publicly hanged, the public outcry was such that the hangman had to be placed in protective custody.
		For this offence, Porteous himself was eventually tried in the High Court of Justiciary and found guilty of murder andsentenced to death.
		Although later granted a RoyalPardon, Captain Porteous was dragged out to be cruelly tortured and lynched himself at the hands of an angry mob.
	www.therfcc.org /captain-john-porteous-103199.html (212 words)

	Porteous Research Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of the first Porteous family members to migrate to the colonies for whom we have a record is Henry Porteous, who emigrated from Edinburgh to St Helena Island about 1787.
		The first member of the Porteous family to set foot on the continent was probably Captain John Porteous, who arrived aboard the 'Speke' in 1808.
		Around 1860 John Porteous moved from Stranraer, Scotland to Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand - a city which has rightly been described as 'The Edinburgh of the South', and became the father of Dr William James Porteous (1884-1969), renowned medical missionary to the Punjab.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /bruceporteous/research/colonies.html (1277 words)

	Scottish Political Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Six people are killed when Captain John Porteous orders troops to fire at the crowd during the hanging of a smuggler.
		Sir Robert Wapole the Whig Prime Minister is opposed by another Whig, John Campbell, the Duke of Argyll and Frederick Prince of Wales.
		The Prime Minister, Spencer Percival, is shot dead by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons.
	www.alba.org.uk /timeline/1707to1832.html (2443 words)

	Porteous family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The earliest records formembers of the Porteous family in Peeblesshire date back to the early part of the fifteenth century.
		The earliest possible reference, according to Lord LyonKing of Arms in Edinburgh, is to a Guillaume Porteuse (later WilliamPorteous), who arrived from Normandy c 1400 under the patronship of the wealthy Fraise family (later to become the Frasers).
		Families were tempted by the offer of employment in the fast growing industries which had burgeonedwith the coming of the Industrial Revolution and thepromise of a higher standard of living.
	www.therfcc.org /porteous-family-252358.html (517 words)

	1736 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		April 14 - Porteous Riots erupt in Edinburgh after execution of a smuggler Andrew Wilson when town guard captain John Porteous orders his men to fire at the crowd.
		A French expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis is sent by King Louis XV to Lapland to measure the length of a degree of the meridian, and proves that the Earth is flattened at the poles
		John Francis Edward Acton, Prime Minister of Naples (d.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1736 (544 words)

	1736 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		June 25 - John Horne Tooke English politician and philologist.
		John Francis Edward Acton Prime minister of Naples
		Captain John Porteous Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh during the riots of 1736
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/1/17/1736.html (454 words)

	Smuggling.
		John finds out they are clues to the hiding place of Blackbeard's diamond.
		John pays no attention and goes in search of the diamond and it is only after many years and much sorrow that he returns to Moonfleet and the curse of the diamond is finally ended.
		Captain Davy told Robin that to be successful smuggling relies on a partnership between the rich and the poor.
	www.marysmoffat.co.uk /bibliography/eight/smug.htm (3180 words)

	Captain John Montour Revolutionary Hero
		George Bryan, John Ewing, and David Rittenhouse, on the part of Pennsylvania, and James Madison, late Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and Robert Andrews, on the part of Virginia, were appointed Commissioners to agree upon a boundary.
		Captain Andrew Montour, a Canadian Half-breed, was employed by the Virginians as an interpreter with the Indians and also with the French.
		Captain Andrew was a man of intelligence and some education, although a letter of his to the Governor of Pennsylvania, July 21, 1754, is signed by a mark instead of a signature.
	www.melungeons.com /articles/apr2005.htm (7420 words)

	porteous.org \| Australian Clan Home
		John Porteous, Captain of the Edinburgh City Guard, ordered his men to fire on a mob which was demonstrating at the execution of a smuggler in 1736, killing several people.
		However, he was later seized from prison by a mob, who hanged him from the pole outside a dyer's shop.
		There are a number of Porteous related (excuse the pun) web sites spread across the internet.
	porteous.org (213 words)

	PORTEOUS, JOHN (d. 1736) - Online Information article about PORTEOUS, JOHN (d. 1736) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Porteous, who was said to have fired at the See also:
		The incident of the Porteous riots was used by See also:
		British Museum) containing The Life and Death of Captain John Porteous, and other papers See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /POL_PRE/PORTEOUS_JOHN_d_1736_.html (578 words)

	Chapter Popish Plot <i>to</i> Posthumus of P by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Porteous (Captain John), an officer of the city guard.
		Porteous, wife of the captain.—Sir W. Scott: The Heart of Midlothian (time, George II.).
		Valerius Maximus says, “She, being determined to kill herself, took hot burning coals into her mouth, and kept her lips closed till she was suffocated by the smoke.”
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1126/14927/2.html (457 words)

	S.FW - The Heart of Midlothian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When the day for the execution arrived, the magistrates, fearing that there might be an attempt at rescue, ordered Captain John Porteous, who commanded the city guard, to protect, the scaffold.
		The execution took place, however, without interference from a sullen crowd, but subsequently there was some disturbance, upon which, without adequate reason, Captain Porteous ordered his soldiers to fire, with the result that about twenty spectators were killed or injured, many of whom were certainly not of a riotous disposition.
		The government in London, and the Queen personally, regarded this defiance of their authority as a rebellious insolence, which was not improved by the professed inability of the Edinburgh magistrates to discover those who had been concerned in the lynching.
	www.sfw.org /books/midlothian.html (1193 words)

	History up to 1799 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hugh Kennedy, Robert Stewart and John Smale, three of the identified players, are credited with introducing the game in Scotland.
		Golf, along with football, is banned by the Scots Parliament of James II because it has interfered with military training for the wars against the English.
		In the first recorded international golf match, the Duke of York and John Paterstone of Scotland defeat two English noblemen in a match played on the links of Leith.
	www.fiso.co.uk /history.htm (898 words)

	Wholesale Golf Equipment : The King of Internet Golf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Prince of Wales is elected Captain of the R and A. The Texas Open is inaugurated, the second-oldest surviving PGA TOUR event.
		Francis Ouimet becomes the first American Captain of the R and A. The USGA and the R and A, in a conference, complete a newly revised Rules of Golf.
		John Daly wins the PGA Championship at Crooked Stick when, as ninth alternate, a slot in the tournament opens up for him on the night before the Championship began.
	www.wholesalegolfequipment.com /golftimeline.html (6771 words)

	St Cuthbert's p. 97
		At serving the edict on the 12th, by James Dawson (afterwards his successor), such a tumult arose that the City Guard was called out, commanded by Captain John Porteous, who afterwards met with such a tragic fate.
		Some of his men were so severely handled by the crowd that in self-defence they fired upon them, when several were severely wounded.
		When tried for his life after the riot of April 1736, Porteous, who maintained that he had then given no orders to fire, referred to what had happened at the West Kirk, when counsel for the Crown did not dispute his assertion that on that occasion the shots had been fired without his orders.
	www.dwalker.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Fasti%20Web%20pages/p.%2097%20St%20Cuthbert.htm (558 words)

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