Item
Folio 28: Extract of Placard Enclosed with SP 91/31 folio 24 French.
Catalogue reference: SP 91/31/28
Date: 1741 Dec 31
Folio 28: Extract of Placard Enclosed with SP 91/31 folio 24 French.
Item
Folios 152-154. Jean Douglas to the King. Petition for the lives of her two sons,...
Catalogue reference: SP 31/3/83
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This record is about the Folios 152-154. Jean Douglas to the King. Petition for the lives of her two sons,... dating from 1687 Oct 18 - 1687 Oct 22 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, James II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- SP 31/3/83
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1687 Oct 18 - 1687 Oct 22
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Folios 152-154. Jean Douglas to the King. Petition for the lives of her two sons, James Sinclair a gunsmith, and John Sinclair an engraver,' who were unfortunately brought over to engrave three heads upon steel' and capitally convicted at Monmouth by Judge Richard Holloway. The petition was referred by the King to Holloway who, on 22 October, certified that the two brothers were fit objects of the King's mercy.
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- English
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