Catalogue description Folios 23-24. Donald MacDonnell [MacDonald] a [Jacobite] prisoner awaiting trial, to...

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Details of SP 36/87/2/23
Reference: SP 36/87/2/23
Description:

Folios 23-24. Donald MacDonnell [MacDonald] a [Jacobite] prisoner awaiting trial, to Alexr [Alexander] Robertson of Shawloch, alias Baron Reid, on behalf of himself and a convicted friend [Donald] MacDonnell [McDonald] of Tyrnadrish [Tiendrish, Teirnadreish]. McDonald describes how, on his first landing in Scotland, the Young Pretender [Charles Edward Stuart] forcibly occupied his home fifteen miles away, slaughtered his cattle, and carried him away to Edinburgh 'by the utmost force'. He quotes Sir Thomas Shereden [Sheridan] as saying, the [Jacobites] then had '3 to 400 men in arms with the rest gathering daily'. Sent c/o Alexr Small Junior, surgeon, George Street, York Building, London [Middlesex]. Dated at Carlisle Castle [Cumberland].

Date: 1746 Sept 16
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Folios 202-203
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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