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Folio 6. Affidavit in the case of Robert Forbes, prisoner in Carlisle [Cumberland]...

Catalogue reference: SP 36/87/3/6

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This record is about the Folio 6. Affidavit in the case of Robert Forbes, prisoner in Carlisle [Cumberland]... dating from 1746 Sept 22 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 36/87/3/6
Date
1746 Sept 22
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Folio 6. Affidavit in the case of Robert Forbes, prisoner in Carlisle [Cumberland] convicted of High Treason, sworn by Alexander Malcolm of Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, verifying Forbes's baptismal record. Dated at Carlisle. Filed with:

Folio 7. Affidavit sworn by John M'culrath [signs McCurath?], a soldier in Colonel Lascel's [Lascelle's] regiment wounded at the Battle of Preston [Prestonpans], describing how James Forbes's [sic] wife helped him escape. Dated at Carlisle.

Folio 8-9. Affidavit sworn by Grace Blaclock [signs Blacklock] of Carlisle, that she knew Forbes while they both lived in John Robertson's house, that he expressed no support for the [Jacobite] cause, and that he escaped the rebels after [the Battle of] Falkirk, but before Culloden. Reports him saying he had brothers who were officers in army of King [George]. Dated at Carlisle court.

Folio 10. Copy extract of Forbes's baptismal record dated 3 November 1727, signed by John Lumsden Minr [Minister] of Strathdon, as refered to in folio 6.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Folios 330-334
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
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