Baillie, Robert, a zealous Scotch Presbyterian, tried for complicity in the Rye House Plot, and unfairly condemned to death, and barbarously executed the same day (in 1683) for fear he should die afterwards and cheat the gallows of its victim.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Baillie, Robert * Bailly, Jean Sylvain