Authority Cited: Layer's Trial
Author name and dates: Christopher Layer (1683-1723)
PORTRAIT: see image below from the British Museum
BKG Bio-tweet: Lawyer; Jacobite plotter; visited Pretender in Rome; tried in 1722, did not implicate Atterbury; executed in 1723
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Layer's Trial cite added in 1773 Dict.]
Author name and dates: Christopher Layer (1683-1723)
PORTRAIT: see image below from the British Museum
BKG Bio-tweet: Lawyer; Jacobite plotter; visited Pretender in Rome; tried in 1722, did not implicate Atterbury; executed in 1723
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Layer's Trial cite added in 1773 Dict.]
- ? A Faithful Account of the Life of Christopher Layer, Esq; Barrister at Law; From His Birth to His Execution, for High Treason; And His Last Behaviour, by a Gentleman of Norwich, 1723; Hist. Reg., Chron. Diary for 1722 and 1723
- Layer (no work cited); introduce (Dict.: "If he will introduce himself by prefaces, we cannot help it.")
