Patrick Sellar

In the tremendous Highland Archive Centre this morning for a great introduction to the extraordinary riches kept there. This is a snippet from one - the Dornoch Jail Record of Prisoners from 1816. Patrick Sellar’s Arrest and brief incarceration on a charge of ‘Wilfully setting fire to a house’ is recorded. Although the trial took only 15 minutes to acquit him. The beautiful irony is the previous prisoner recorded in the book is charged with sheep stealing...