NAM.1986-12-38-118

Notebook containing details of Maj Gen Alexander Dury's involvement in the capturing of several state prisoners in 1744-1745. The first concerns Sir John Webb Bart and Edward Weld Esq, both Roman Catholics. Dury was instructed by the Duke of Newcastle to prepare to take them on 2 October 1745. He left London on 4 October and reached Poole the following afternoon where he ascertained that Weld was at Lulworth, but Webb was in France. With the reluctant assistance of the riding officers at Wareham, Dury captured Weld at Lulworth Castle and he is sent to Salisbury. Dury joined him there and accompanied him to London, arriving 8 October, where he was examined by Lord Harrington and nothing having been found against him was released two days later. Weld and Webb were under suspicion of helping the Roman Catholic cause having been named in two letters. On 22 November 1745, Dury was ordered to go to Deal to investigate the capture of several French, Scottish, and Irish officers and a young man suspected of being the son of the Pretender that had been taken on board the 'Esperance'. The account includes copies of correspondence between Newcastle, Dury and Vernon. Dury interrogated the prisoners and takes some into custody. At the back of the book is an account of the arrest of Col William Cecill on 24 Feb 1744 and details of who was to be taken to the Tower of London.

2nd Jacobite Rebellion (1745-1746)