Local man loses head after backing a loser in a ‘wondrous plot’
UK: A VOLUME containing a dozen reports, tracts and pamphlets relating to the 18th century trial of a local man, Aylsham lawyer Christopher Layer, went to Jarndyce at £400 in this first Aylsham sale of the year.
A lawyer with a large local practice, Layer was a Jacobite sympathiser who in 1721 went to Rome to p…