ScotlandsPeople (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk) has added records from the Radical Rising of 1820. From the site, some of the key details on how to access the records:
Background information
The ‘Radical Rising’ or ‘Radical War’ of 1820, also known as the Scottish Insurrection of 1820, was a week of strikes and unrest in Scotland that culminated in the trial of a number of ‘radicals’ for the crime of treason. It was the last armed uprising on Scottish soil, with the intent of establishing a radical republic.
The records of the Radical Rising trials
The highly-significant trial papers of the Radical Rising are held by the National Records of Scotland (NRS). For many years, the papers were thought to have been lost in storage at Parliament House, Edinburgh. In 1972, nineteenth-century records of the High Court of Justiciary were received by the former Scottish Record Office (predecessor of NRS).
The records were rediscovered among unsorted High Court papers in 1983 by the Keeper of the Records of Scotland though have, until recently, been an under-used resource. The collection has now been fully catalogued, conserved and digitised, and is made fully available online on ScotlandsPeople for the first time.
How to search the records of the Radical Rising
To search for a particular record from the Radical Rising trials, go to the Virtual Volumes search or see our guide on Using Virtual Volumes.
The NRS online catalogue references for the eight series, which can be used for searching the records by reference number in Virtual Volumes, are as follows:
JC21/1 Commission of oyer and terminer
JC21/2 Treason Trials: County of Stirling
JC21/3 Treason Trials: County of Lanark
JC21/4 Treason Trials: County of Dunbarton
JC21/5 Treason Trials: County of Renfrew
JC21/6 Treason Trials: County of Ayr
JC21/7 Writ of certiorari directing commissioners to certify indictments into High Court of Justiciary
JC21/8 Writs of capias against persons not brought to trial in 1820
The full article, with considerably more details, is available at https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/research-guides/radical-rising-1820
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Chris
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