Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – May 3, 1716
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Date: May 3, 1716 Author: Patrick Blair Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044 Folio: ff. 153-154
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English
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British Library, London
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Legal, Patronage
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Court Case, Jacobite Rising, Prison
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May 3, 1716
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Masters side Newgate
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Dr Stordale
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Blair is awaiting the court’s verdict regarding his complicity in the Jacobite Rising. He asks Sloane to speak with Dr Stordale to see what can be done to secure his release from prison. Patrick Blair was a botanist and surgeon whose papers were published in the Transactions. In 1715 Blair joined the Jacobite rebellion as a battle surgeon but was captured and condemned to death. He was visited by Sloane in prison in the hopes the latter might secure a pardon. Sloane was successful and the pardon arrived shortly before Blair’s scheduled execution (Anita Guerrini, Blair, Patrick (c.16801728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2568, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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