John Porteous/Bibliography


 * Sir Daniel Wilson, Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time (2 vols. Edinburgh, 1848): State Trials, vol. xvii.; William Coxe, Memoirs of the Life of Sir R. Walpole (4 vols. London, 1816); Alexander Carlyle, Autobiography (Edinburgh, 1860), gives the account of an eye-witness of the execution of Wilson;
 * pamphlets (2 vols. in British Museum) containing The Life and Death of Captain John Porteous, and other papers relating to the subject;
 * W. E. H. Lecky, History of England in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 324, note (7 vols., London, 1892).
 * Scott's notes to The Heart of Midlothian.