What is recorded here
This brass commemorative plaque records: At this place on the night of September 7th 1736 Cpt. Jock Porteous of the Edinburgh City Guard was brutally lynched from a dyers pole by an Edinburgh Mob. Recorded plaque organisation: Porteous Associates.
Jock Porteous, a captain in the Edinburgh City Guard, was infamously lynched in 1736 after failing to prevent a robbery, highlighting tensions between the city's authorities and its populace.
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