End of Year Treason Trials at Carlisle and Westminster
A chronicle notes multiple treason indictments and guilty pleas. Charles Garden faces arraignment at Carlisle for high treason. William Merray, Darrick Gordon, John Lindsey, and Silvester Douglas charged. Several others, including Derfer, Biggs, Archibald Fotheringharay, Urquhart, and Alexander Flay, plead guilty on various dates. Deaths among officials and nobility are also recorded.