Jacobite prisoners
Repercussions in the form of trials, deportations, government possession of estates and executions continued until 1747 when the Hanoverian government issued an official end to their fight against the remaining Jacobite prisoners.
When the Highland army retreated to Scotland the Manchester Regiment was left to defend Carlisle. On the capture of Carlisle by the Duke of Cumberland on 30th December, in terms of the capitulation, the Governor and officers surrendered themselves at the gates, while the rest of the garrison retired to the cathedral. The depositions at the trial of these Jacobites are abbreviated from the papers of Sir John Strange.
Papers of Sir John Strange among The Egerton MSS, in the British Museum
In contrast with the triumph and the deification came the torture and the slaughter of the victims. The trials of the prisoners taken at Carlisle and in Scotland next monopolised the public mind. When the precept was issued by the judges, to the High Sheriff of Surrey, to summon a jury for the trial of the prisoners, at the Court House, in Southwark, a very equivocal compliment was paid to Richmond. The grand jury were selected from among the inhabitants of Addiscombe, Bermondsey, Camberwell, Clapham, Croydon, Kennington, Lambeth, Putney, Rotherhithe, Southwark, but not from Richmond, or its immediate neighbourhood. The inhabitants of that courtly locality were spared. They were supposed to be thoroughly Hanoverian, and therefore to a certain degree biased. The trials of those called ‘the Manchester officers’ divided the attention of London with those of the Jacobite peers.
The former were brought to the Court House, St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark, on July 3rd, for arraignment. The judges in commission were Chief Justice Lee, Justices Wright, Dennison, Foster, and Abney; Barons Clive and Reynolds, with two magistrates, Sir Thomas De Viel and Peter Theobald, Esqs. Eighteen prisoners were brought to the Court through an excited and insulting mob. Of these eighteen, five pleaded guilty. The trials of the remaining thirteen were deferred to the 13th July. Of these, one was acquitted.
London in Jacobite times, by Dr Doran, F.S.A. published by Richard Bentley & Son London in 1877, pages 166 & 167
When the Highland army retreated to Scotland the Manchester Regiment was left to defend Carlisle. On the capture of Carlisle by the Duke of Cumberland on 30th December, in terms of the capitulation, the Governor and officers surrendered themselves at the gates, while the rest of the garrison retired to the cathedral. The depositions at the trial of these Jacobites are abbreviated from the papers of Sir John Strange.
Papers of Sir John Strange among The Egerton MSS, in the British Museum
In contrast with the triumph and the deification came the torture and the slaughter of the victims. The trials of the prisoners taken at Carlisle and in Scotland next monopolised the public mind. When the precept was issued by the judges, to the High Sheriff of Surrey, to summon a jury for the trial of the prisoners, at the Court House, in Southwark, a very equivocal compliment was paid to Richmond. The grand jury were selected from among the inhabitants of Addiscombe, Bermondsey, Camberwell, Clapham, Croydon, Kennington, Lambeth, Putney, Rotherhithe, Southwark, but not from Richmond, or its immediate neighbourhood. The inhabitants of that courtly locality were spared. They were supposed to be thoroughly Hanoverian, and therefore to a certain degree biased. The trials of those called ‘the Manchester officers’ divided the attention of London with those of the Jacobite peers.
The former were brought to the Court House, St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark, on July 3rd, for arraignment. The judges in commission were Chief Justice Lee, Justices Wright, Dennison, Foster, and Abney; Barons Clive and Reynolds, with two magistrates, Sir Thomas De Viel and Peter Theobald, Esqs. Eighteen prisoners were brought to the Court through an excited and insulting mob. Of these eighteen, five pleaded guilty. The trials of the remaining thirteen were deferred to the 13th July. Of these, one was acquitted.
London in Jacobite times, by Dr Doran, F.S.A. published by Richard Bentley & Son London in 1877, pages 166 & 167
Execution of Lord Kilmarnock
A special commission was appointed, which sat at St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark, on 23rd June, 1746, and during the following two days bills of indictment were found against thirty-six of the principals taken at Carlisle. The indictment narrates that these men:-
“Not having the fear of God in their hearts, for having any regard for the duty of their allegiance, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, as false traitors and rebels against our said present sovereign lord the king, their supreme, true, natural, lawful, and undoubted soverign lord, entirely withdrawing that cordial love, true and due obedience, fidelity, and allegiance which every subject of right ought to bear towards our said present soverign lord the king; also devising (and as much as in them lay) most wickedly and traitrously intending to change and subvert the rule and government of this kingdom..... and also to put and bring our said present soveign lord the king to death and destruction, and to raise and exalt the person pretended to be Prince of Wales—during the life of the late king James the second of England—to the crown and royal state and dignity of king, and to the imperial rule and government of this kingdom.”
Historical Papers relating to the Jacobite Period 1699 - 1750, Vol 2, New Spalding Club 1896, pages xxvii - xxviii
“Not having the fear of God in their hearts, for having any regard for the duty of their allegiance, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, as false traitors and rebels against our said present sovereign lord the king, their supreme, true, natural, lawful, and undoubted soverign lord, entirely withdrawing that cordial love, true and due obedience, fidelity, and allegiance which every subject of right ought to bear towards our said present soverign lord the king; also devising (and as much as in them lay) most wickedly and traitrously intending to change and subvert the rule and government of this kingdom..... and also to put and bring our said present soveign lord the king to death and destruction, and to raise and exalt the person pretended to be Prince of Wales—during the life of the late king James the second of England—to the crown and royal state and dignity of king, and to the imperial rule and government of this kingdom.”
Historical Papers relating to the Jacobite Period 1699 - 1750, Vol 2, New Spalding Club 1896, pages xxvii - xxviii
