SIR GEORGE MACKENZIE. Kings Advocate of Rosehaugh. His Life and Times 1636(?) -1691 .
London, Longmans Green & Co, 1909. 8vo...pp. xii + 347,index, 4 illustrations. Original maroon buckram hardcover. Very Good copy. Item #192907
Mackenzie was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1659, and spoke in defence at the trial of Archibald Campbell, Marquis of Argyll in 1661. He acted as justice-depute from 1661 to 1663, a post that involved him in extensive witch trials.As Lord Advocate he was the minister responsible for the persecuting policy of Charles II in Scotland against the Presbyterian Covenanters. After the Battle of Bothwell Bridge in 1679 Mackenzie imprisoned 1,200 Covenanters in a field next to Greyfriars Kirkyard. Some were executed, and hundreds died of maltreatment. His treatment of Covenanters gained him the nickname "Bluidy Mackenzie"
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