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To the kings most excellent majesty : the humble representation of the peers of Scotland subscribing : petition signed : [Scotland], to George I, King of England, [1715 or later].

BIB_ID
104840
Accession number
MA 753.2
Display Date
[1715 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) : vellum ; 45.4 x 45.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of documents concerning the 1715 Jacobite rebellion; see main record for MA 753 for more information.
Probably in the hand of George Keith, Earl of Marischal.
Signed by 26 Scottish peers including John Murray, Duke of Atholl; Wigtoune [John Fleming, Earl of Wigton?]; David Carnegie, Earl of Northesk; John Elphinstone, Lord Balmerino; Kinnaird [Patrick Kinnaird, Lord Kinnaird of Inchture?]; Alexander Montgomerie, Earl of Eglinton; David Wemyss, Earl of Wemyss; William Livingston, Viscount Kilsyth; Francis Sempill, Lord Sempill; Robert Stuart, Lord Blantyre; James Livingston, Earl of Linlithgow; William Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie; David Murray, Viscount of Stormont; Alexander Home, Earl of Home; George Keith, Earl of Marischal; James Stewart, Earl of Galloway; Robert Rollo, Lord Rollo; John Erskine, Earl of Mar; John Gray, Lord Gray; Thomas Hay, Earl of Kinnoull; John Campbell, Earl of Breadalbane; George Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen; Alexander Fraser, Lord Saltoun; and three illegible names.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson before 1913.
Summary
Asking that they be re-admitted to the House of Lords.