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J Scrope to Harrington see SP 36/48, f188
Catalogue reference: SP 36/46/187A
Date: 1738 Oct 25
J Scrope to Harrington see SP 36/48, f188
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Folios 39-40. Jno [John] Sharpe to Duke [of Newcastle] reporting on the day's court...
Catalogue reference: SP 36/89/2/39
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- 1746 Nov 15
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Folios 39-40. Jno [John] Sharpe to Duke [of Newcastle] reporting on the day's court proceedings [against Jacobite suspects]. Captain Alexander Buchanan, was acquitted after arguing he was forced, aged 17, to join the rebels in the Duke of Perth's regiment. Complicated legal argument in the cases of Alexander Kinloch and Charles Kinloch, whose claim, under the Articles of the Union, to be tried in a Scottish Court, and whose objections to the empanelling of a second jury, were referred to the Attorney General [Sir Dudley Ryder].
Found guilty: Sir James Kinloch; James Stewart; Roderick McCulloch James Bradshaw; John Hamilton; James Lindsay; George Abernethie; Andrew Wood; John Burnett; Allan Cameron; Charles Gordon; Sir John Wedderburn; James Gordon; Henry Kerr; Alexander Leith; Alexander McLauchlan; Walter Mitchell; Thomas Watson; George Ramsay; Hector McKenzie; Francis Farquharson; John Farquharson.
Presiding judges: Lord Chief Justice [of the King's Bench, Sir William] Lee, Lord Chief Justice [of the Common Plea, Sir John] Willes, Mr Justice Wright, Mr Justice Foster, Mr Justice Abney, Mr Baron Reynolds and Mr Baron Clive.
Enclosed [but not filed here] were the petitions of Walter Mitchell and George Ramsey, and James Gordon. Dated at St Margaret's Hill, London.
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- Folios 184-185
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