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Folios 50-51. Petition for mercy of James Lindsay, formerly a shoemaker at Perth...

Catalogue reference: SP 36/91/1/50

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This record is about the Folios 50-51. Petition for mercy of James Lindsay, formerly a shoemaker at Perth... dating from 1746 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 36/91/1/50
Date
1746
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Folios 50-51. Petition for mercy of James Lindsay, formerly a shoemaker at Perth [Perthshire], now a prisoner at New Gaol, Southwark [Surrey] sentenced to death for High Treason, at St Margaret's Hill [Southwark [Surrey] in October [1746]. Describes how the [Jacobite] rebels requisitioned his stock of shoe, his efforts to obtain redress from them at Edinburgh, his forcible recruitment there into Lord Kilmarnock's squadron of Horse, and his later removal from the house of a Perth brewer, John Malcolm, by and Irish officer, Captain Gold. Mentions a wife and 'several' children.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Folios 58-59
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Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15670143/

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