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Jock Porteous brass plaque

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Jock Porteous brass plaque
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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.

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