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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 66. Affidavit of Alexr [Alexander] Harley, merchant, of Edinburgh, on behalf...
Catalogue reference: SP 36/88/1/66
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- 1746 Oct 4
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Folio 66. Affidavit of Alexr [Alexander] Harley, merchant, of Edinburgh, on behalf of Robert Forbes, prisoner at Carlisle Castle [Cumberland] sentenced to death for High Treason. Harley swears that Forbes complained of being 'seduced... when he was in liquor' to join the rebels [Jacobites], and that he was threatened with imprisonment should he try to escape. Witnessed by Justice of the Peace Arche [?Archibald] Murray. Dated at Edinburgh.
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- Folio 72
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