Baillie Robertof Jerviswood

Baillie, Robert, of Jerviswood, belonged to the family of the Baillies of Lamington, Lanarkshire. He took an active part in the support of Presbyterianism, and in 1676 was tried for a tumult against the Government owing to his attempt to procure the release of his brother-in-law imprisoned by Archbishop Sharpe. Though condemned he was speedily released in order to avoid popular indignation. He then resided in London, and was arrested in 1683 for complicity in the Rye House Plot. After an unfair trial in Edinburgh he was sentenced to death, and as ill-health and age threatened to cheat the gallows of a victim, he was hanged on the same day.