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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
Item
Folio 13. Affidavit in favour of Robert Forbes, prisoner in Carlisle [Cumberland]...
Catalogue reference: SP 36/87/2/13
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This record is about the Folio 13. Affidavit in favour of Robert Forbes, prisoner in Carlisle [Cumberland]... dating from 1746 Sept 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 36/87/2/13
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1746 Sept 16
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Description (What the record is about)
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Folio 13. Affidavit in favour of Robert Forbes, prisoner in Carlisle [Cumberland] convicted of High Treason, sworn by William Leechman, professor of Divinity at Glasgow University [Lanarkshire], asserting that Forbes, who was billeted with him in Glasgow [Lanarkshire], was 'seduced' to join the rebels only by the 'over persuasion of Lord Pitsligo when he was at a distance from his parents', and that he had no liking for the [Jacobite] cause. Dated at Carlisle Court.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Folios 187-188
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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