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Folios 100-101. John Sharpe to [Duke of Newcastle] updating him on [Jacobite] trials...

Catalogue reference: SP 36/90/1/100

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This record is about the Folios 100-101. John Sharpe to [Duke of Newcastle] updating him on [Jacobite] trials... dating from 1746 Dec 16 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 36/90/1/100
Date
1746 Dec 16
Description

Folios 100-101. John Sharpe to [Duke of Newcastle] updating him on [Jacobite] trials heard in the cases of Alexander Grant, volunteer in Glengarry's Regiment and George Law, Chaplain to Stonywood's Regiment. Sharpe reports that Grant surrendered on the Duke's Proclamation and he was acquitted without the jury hearing any evidence. Law was acquitted despite evidence he'd preached to the rebels in his meeting house and was with them at Glasgow [Lanarkshire], Perth [Perthshire], and towns they marched through from Aberdeen [Aberdeenshire] to Elgin [Morayshire]. Mentions Captain Moore. Dated at St Margaret's Hill [Southwark, Surrey].

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Folios 117-118
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