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Part 1, Folios 60-61. From James Hepburne and James Stewart. To George I. Place:...

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Reference SP 35/77/55
Date 1716 July 10 - 1716 Jul 14
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Part 1, Folios 60-61. From James Hepburne and James Stewart. To George I. Place: Newgate Prison.

Folio 60: Copy of the petition of James Hepburne and James Stewart, prisoners in Newgate, asking for their enlargement. There is no accusation hitherto laid against them and their confinement has reduced them to a very bad state of health so they are in iminent danger of an incurable consumption. Folio 61: Affidavit from physicians James Wellwood, John Arburthnell and Hans Sloane attesting of Hepburne and Stewart's bad health. Note at the back of the petition: Recommended by Lord Carnarvon [James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos].

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