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Translation of SP 54/13, number 112A
Catalogue reference: SP 54/13/112B
Date: 1722 June 23
Translation of SP 54/13, number 112A
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Lord Justice Clerk Cockburne, on prisoners who were forced into arms and are no more...
Catalogue reference: SP 54/12/88
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- SP 54/12/88
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1716 Aug 2
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Description (What the record is about)
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Lord Justice Clerk Cockburne, on prisoners who were forced into arms and are no more guilty than those rebels who have received mercy; and concerning those who never took up arms, only aided the Jacobites by treasonable activity. Also reporting incompetence in the administration: "never a good government was so much made a jest of, which makes its enemies despise it and its friends dispirited"
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- memorial wanting
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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