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	John Porteous - LoveToKnow 1911
		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 /John_Porteous (289 words)

	Porteous Research Project
		John Porteous was born at The Glen, Quair water, near Traquair, Peeblesshire, the son of Stephen Porteous, a tailor of the Canongate, Edinburgh.
		Porteous was imprisoned in the Tolbooth, near St Giles church.
		Porteous was dragged from his cell and up the Lawnmarket towards the West Bow and the Grassmarket, where he was lynched from a dyer's pole, using a rope taken from a local draper's shop.
	porteous.org.uk /john_porteous.html (1184 words)

	Porteous riots - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Porteous riots
		Riots in Edinburgh, Scotland on 14 April 1736, after Lieutenant John Porteous, captain of the Edinburgh militia, ordered his men to open fire on a crowd rioting in protest at the execution of smugglers.
		Six members of the crowd were killed and Porteous was sentenced to death but was later reprieved.
		The prison in which Porteous was being held was stormed on 8 September by an angry mob which dragged him out and lynched him.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Porteous+riots (172 words)

	Porteous, John - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		When the crowd, which was sympathetic to Wilson, rioted, the guard fired into it, killing eight or nine persons.
		Porteous was tried and sentenced to death, but his execution was postponed.
		Incidents of the Porteous riot are used by Sir Walter Scott in The Heart of Midlothian.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-porteous.html (285 words)

	BBC - Scotland History - On This Day
		On the 7th of September 1736, Captain Porteous was dragged from prison and lynched by an angry mob in Edinburgh.
		The public rioting that followed Wilson's death was quashed by the locally born John Porteous, when he ordered his troops to open fire on the angry crowd, killing and wounding up to 30 people.
		Incidents of the Porteous Riots are used by Walter Scott in "The Heart of Midlothian".
	bbc.co.uk /scotland/history/onthisday/onthisday.shtml?month=09&day=07 (225 words)

	PRIVATE When the Heart of Midlothian met the culture of retribution
		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.
		An examination of the literature surrounding the Porteous Riot revealed that a culture of retribution existed in Edinburgh and possibly Scotland.
		The Porteous Riot did not result simply from a breakdown in law and order, rather an underlying culture of retribution led to what appeared to be a breakdown of law an order.
	www.louisville.edu /a-s/history/pat/nuxiwilkins.htm (5415 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)

	The Porteous Riots. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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)

	Porteous, John, [Porteous, John.] The information for His Majesty's Advocate, for His Highness's interest; against ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The first full account of the Porteous riots, and the aftermath, to be published in London; an account of his trial had been issued by the same publisher a few days earlier.
		Capt. Porteous had been in charge of troops who fired unnecessarily into a crowd of Edinburgh ctiziens assembled to watch the execution of a local merchant convicted of smuggling; six or seven were killed, and many others wounded.
		When a reprieve was granted, on the grounds that Porteous himself had not issued the fatal order, a body of men in disguise broke into the prison where Porteous was still confined, and murdered him.
	www.polybiblio.com /ximenes/B3557.html (452 words)

	The Heart of Midlothian (Penguin Classics) \| Computer Store
		The novel is based on two true stories, the Porteous riots in Edinburgh, and the heroics of one Helen Walker, a simple Scots lass who walked to London to save her sister from an unjustly imposed death penalty for child murder.
		Scott’s way of combining these two stories, making the leader of the riot to be the father of the child that had disappeared, is neither historical nor particularly convincing, and the fate of the child is, indeed, a horrible one.
		Scott's novel focuses on the prison firstly in its description of the Porteous riot of 1736 when a mob stormed the prison in order to revenge itself on a prisoner who it seemed was to escape justice.
	www.cpupedia.com /store/product/0140431292.aspx (1708 words)

	Miscellaneous - Other Links Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Porteous Associates-Australia has information on purchasing the "Porteous Story" and family history going back to Roman times.
		Included is a variety of research material on social, political, and religious Porteous participants through the ages.
		Georgiana [PORTEOUS] SMALL daughter of John and Mary Ann Porteous - researcher John SMALL.
	www.mytuthers.com /myGenealogy/miscOtherLinks.htm (247 words)

	1736 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.
		May 8 - Marriage of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.
		September 7 - Edinburgh crowd drags John Porteous out of his cell in Tolbooth prison and lynches him
	www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /1/7/3/1736.html (558 words)

	This Month in Celtic History - May 2003
		Returning home to Scotland from his legal studies in Holland in 1736, he arrived in Edinburgh, as luck would have it, on the very night the Porteous Riots erupted against English taxation.
		Moreover, he happened to be staying in the very epicenter of the riots in Edinburgh’s Lawnmarket.
		When he ventured outside to see what the sudden ruckus was about, he was fingered as a ringleader and nearly landed in the nearby jail.
	www.celticleague.org /history_5-03b.html (575 words)

	The Highlander: Battles & Uprisings
		Nevertheless, Mons Meg was capable of hurling the huge stone cannon balls a distance of two miles and of smashing through the eight-foot-thick stone walls of Threave Castle, the favorite fortress of the Earl of Douglas!
		Stones were thrown at the guards standing around the platform and cudgels were shaken at them.
		The crowd was not behaving in any way out of character, but Captain Porteous ordered his men to prime their muskets.
	www.highlandermagazine.com /battles.html (547 words)

	jacobito: What's your favorite riot?
		* 121 BC - Roman Election Riot of 121 BC * 113 BC - Roman Election Riot of 113 BC * 532 - Nika riots, (Constantinople) The deadliest riots in world history, with an estimated 30,000 killed in the Hippodome.
		* 1947 - Jerusalem Riots of 1947, (Jerusalem)
		* 1992 - Bombay Riots - Riots in the Indian City of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) after the demolition of Babri Masjid, Ayodhya.
	jacobito.livejournal.com /15704.html (1885 words)

	Trip to Scotland & England 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is set into the Royal Mile next to the west door of St. Giles Cathedral and symbolizes the position of the 15th Century Tolbooth of Edinburgh.
		This also shows the location of prison that held Capt. John Porteous before an angry mob set it afire and dragged him down to the scaffold thus starting the Porteous Riots 1736.
		Rachael Dobbie, the vicar in the nearby town came up to say a few words and to be part of the ceremony honoring the memory of Barry Porteous.
	www.mytuthers.com /Travel/FamilyGathering2005.htm (2343 words)

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		121 BC Roman Election Riot of 121 BC Roman Election Riot of 113 BC Nika riots
		) The deadliest riots in world history, with an estimated 30,000 killed in the Hippodome.
		- Riots in the Indian City of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) after the demolition of
	www.perspectives.com /forums/view_topic.php?id=93535&forum_id=71 (159 words)

	Fada 's Farsaing (Far and Wide) Gaelic and Celtic Customs - Porteous Riots of 1736 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Fada 's Farsaing (Far and Wide) Gaelic and Celtic Customs - Porteous Riots of 1736
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		You can find more articles in the archive under Fada 's Farsaing (Far and Wide)
	www.scottishradiance.com /far/far0405.htm (270 words)

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