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The documents comprise of several writs and several items regarding the Jacobite Uprising in 1715. After the rebellion, the government insisted that all prisoners be tried and those in Scotland were marched over the English border to Carlisle. Politically the trials proved an egregious blunder. By sending men south, the government had violated the guarantees for the Scottish legal system, which were central to the Act of Union. In the event 34 out of 74 had to be released without trial and those found guilty, no sentence was ever passed. All were released in due course under an Act of Grace of 1717. Item 3. relates to a James Cunningham of Barnes who married Isabel, daughter of Archibald Sharp but there is no evidence to suggest that this family were ever aquainted with the Jacobite cause. |