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Folios 112-117. William Wood to [Andrew] Stone. Dated at Customs House, London. Enclosing:...

Catalogue reference: SP 36/73/3/112

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SP 36/73/3/112
Date
1745 Nov 16
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Folios 112-117. William Wood to [Andrew] Stone. Dated at Customs House, London. Enclosing:

Folio 113. G Davies and Fras [Francis] Pulham concerning the examination of two Scottish brothers, one a suspected [Jacobite] spy, bound for Berwick [upon Twee, Northumberland, Berwickshire] aboard as ship trading salmon to London. Part of wax seal. Dated at Customs House, Harwich, [Essex], on 14 November 1745. Enclosing:

Folio 114. Examination of George Grieve, a trader in linen, leather, hops, etc., boarding in Dundee [Angus], with tailor James Smith. Mentions the Seaflower, of Whitby [Yorkshire], Israel Preston master; lodging with William Thompson, watchmaker, Skinner Street, without Bishopsgate [London]; the John & Alice, of Harwich, John Simpson master; Messrs Robert and Alexander Maitland, of Lothbury [London, Middlessex]. Sworn before justices James Clements, mayor, and Griffith Davies.

Folio 115. Examination of James Grieve, cloth trader, Dundee, living with David Crichton, merchant. As above, but also mentioning David Jobson, of Dundee; Samuel Anger, of Colchester [Essex]; attending Sir John Cope's army in Haddington [East Lothian] 20 September 1745, and fleeing with the defeated soldiers to the Fox man-o-war the next day; witness to 'the Pretender's son' [Charles Edward Stuart] in Holyrood House, Edinburgh, with prisoners and captured colours; William Petrie, and Messrs Skinner and Hunter, both of Throgmorton Street [London].

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The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
Folios 437-444
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