[TRIALS]. The Tryal of Capt. Thomas Green and his Crew, before the High Court of Admiralty of Scotland...for Piracy, Robbery and Murder. Edinburgh: by authority, 1705 [but London, 1705]. 2o (310 x 205 mm.) Minor worming in gutter of title and first signature, text not affected. Contemporary spotted calf, blind-ruled, red morocco lettering piece. FIRST EDITION of this account of what certainly appears to be a miscarriage of justice, the result of virulent anti-English feeling in Scotland. The unfortunate Thomas Green, Captain of the Worcester, East Indiaman, was forced by bad weather to put into the Forth on his way home. Unlucky for him a Scotch East Indiaman had recently been seized in the Thames and Green's vessel was taken as a reprisal. One thing led to another with drunken sailors' words taken as fact, describing Green as a pirate and murderer (of Scottish sailors) and in spite of any lack of evidence beyond hearsay and gossip, Green was eventually hanged, such was the public sentiment against him. It wasn't long after that the man Green had been accused of killing, Robert Drummond, Captain of the Speedy Return, was indeed reported killed by a member of his crew rescued near Madagascar; but the killer was Jamaican and the crime recent.