Letter 1857

John McBride to Hans Sloane – July 29, 1712


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Date: July 29, 1712
Author: John McBride
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 68-69



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McBride claims that he suffers from ‘the Disease [of] Nonjurancy’ and had to flee to Ireland to escape a prison term. He asks Sloane to seek a pardon for him. John McBride (ca. 1650-1718) was Minister of the Presbyterian General Synod of Ulster and a religious controversialist (D. W. Hayton, ‘McBride, John (c.1650–1718)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17361, accessed 14 June 2011]).




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