Poser 388 - court books of the High Court of Justiciary, 1566 (part 3)

This week's poser is the last of three and is taken from the court books of the High Court of Justiciary (National Records of Scotland, JC1/13). It relates to a famous murder trial which took place in 1566. Over the last two weeks we learned that Thomas Scot, William Harlaw and John Mowbray were holding Mary Stewart captive at Holyrood Palace, killed David Rizzio and that Mary managed to escape to Dunbar castle. This week we will find out about the sentence.

As last week: watch out for abbreviations and phonetic spelling.

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This week's questions: what was the sentence?

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