BAILLIE, ROBERT (d. 2684), Scottish conspirator, known as BAILLIE OF JERVISwOOD, was the son of George Baillie of St. John's Kirk, Lanarkshire. In despair over the state of his country he determined in 1683 to emigrate to South Carolina, but the plan came to nothing. The same year, with some of his friends, he went to London and entered into communication with Monmouth, Rus sell and their party, in order to work for civil and religious liberty in Scotland. On the discovery of the Rye House Plot he was arrested, and being questioned by the king himself repudiated any knowledge of the conspiracy, but would not deny that he had been consulted with the view of an insurrection in Scotland. He was sent back a prisoner to Scotland where, though there was no evi dence whatever to support his connection with the plot, he was fined £6,000 and kept in close confinement. On Dec. 3, 1684 he was brought up again before the high court on the charge of trea son, and being pronounced guilty on the following day was hanged the same afternoon at the market cross at Edinburgh.