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Folio 20. Affidavit of Alex [Alexander] Vere, son of Captain Daniel Vere, late of...

Catalogue reference: SP 36/88/1/20

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This record is about the Folio 20. Affidavit of Alex [Alexander] Vere, son of Captain Daniel Vere, late of... dating from 1746 Oct 2 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 36/88/1/20
Date
1746 Oct 2
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Folio 20. Affidavit of Alex [Alexander] Vere, son of Captain Daniel Vere, late of Stonebyres, Lanarkshire, in favour of two prisoners now in New Gaol, Southwark Surrey, charged with High Treason, Roderick McCulloch, officer in the Rebel [Jacobite] army, and John Gray, officer in the French Service in John Drummond's Regiment. Vere, a surgeon, was taken prisoner by the rebels at the battle of Falkirk, but McCulloch and Gray helped him escape. Witnessed by John Philp [Philip?] of Greenlaw [Mains, Midlothian?], Justice of the Peace for Edinburgh. Dated at Edinburgh.

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Former department reference
Folio 22
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