Philip Stanfield

(d. 1688)

LBT ID: PhStanf1688	DIED: 1688-02-24
SOURCES: William Roughead, Twelve Scots Trials (1913) 63-84
He was convicted of patricide in a case where the corpse bled upon the touch of the supposed murderer.
REFERENCES TO Philip Stanfield: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1796-97 Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter XI 1823 Found 4: ¶ n1 ¶ 3 ¶ 5 ¶ n1