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ROBERT BAILLIE (d. 1684)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 220 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:BAILLIE (d. 1684)  , Scottish conspirator, known as See also:BAILLIE of JERVISwoon, was the son of See also:George Baillie of St . See also:John's See also:Kirk, See also:Lanarkshire . He incurred the resentment of the Scottish See also:government by rescuing, in See also:June 1676, his See also:brother-in-See also:law Kirkton, a Presbyterian See also:minister who had illegally been seized and confined in a See also:house by Carstairs, an informer . He was fined L500, remaining in See also:prison for four months and then being liberated on paying one-See also:half the See also:fine to Carstairs . In despair at the See also:state of his See also:country he determined in 1683 to emigrate to See also:South Carolina, but the See also:plan came to nothing . The same See also:year Baillie, with some of his See also:friends, went to See also:London and entered into communication with See also:Monmouth, See also:Russell and their party in See also:order to obtain redress; and on the See also:discovery of the Ry e House See also:Plot he was arrested . Questioned by the See also:king himself he repudiated any knowledge of the See also:conspiracy, but with striking truthfulness would not deny that he had been consulted with the view of an insurrection in See also:Scotland . He was subsequently loaded with irons and sent back a prisoner to Scotland . Though there was no See also:evidence whatever to support his connexion with the plot, he was fined £6000 and kept in See also:close confinement . He was already in a languishing state when on the 23rd of See also:December 1684 he was brought up again before the high See also:court on the See also:charge of See also:treason . He was pronounced guilty on the following See also:day and hanged the same afternoon at the See also:market See also:cross at See also:Edinburgh with all the usual barbarities . His shocking treatment was See also:long remembered as one of the worst crimes committed by the See also:Stuart See also:administration in Scotland .

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Bishop See also:Burnet, who was his See also:cousin, describes him as " in the presbyterian principles but . . . a See also:man of See also:great piety and virtue, learned in the law, in See also:mathematics and in See also:languages." He married a See also:sister of See also:Sir See also:Archibald See also:Johnston, See also:Lord See also:Warriston, and See also:left a son, George, who took See also:refuge in See also:Holland, afterwards returning with See also:William III. and being restored to his estates .

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