Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: adultery
Date Of Execution: 1 Jan 1617
Execution Place: unknown
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/14724/transcript/1
John Guthrie was prosecuted for the crime of notorious adultery; in 1617, when he was sentenced to be taken to the Cross of Edinburgh, and hanged on a gibbet till he be dead ; and he appears to have been carried to immediate execution.
