Note 208 — REIGN OF CHARLES II.: 1660-1673. (continued 2)
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In those days, there being as yet no habeas corpus act, it was quite common for persons suspected of crimes to lie several years untried in prison. On the 15th of February 1666, William Drew petitioned for trial or liberation, after having been five years confined in Glasgow jail, on a charge of murder exhibited against him by the Laird of Keir.