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D239 - FitzHerbert family of Tissington - [16th-20th cent]
- F - Family records
  - L - Gally Knight Family
    - 5 - "The Seventeen-Forty-Five", chiefly correspondence concerning the Jacobite forces - 1744-1746

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D239/M/F/16147
Title	Ralph Knight from Mansfield to anon. "We were much allarm'd here last night with a report of the rebels being within a few miles of this place ..."
Date	6 Dec 1745
Extent	1 item
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	FitzHerbert family of Tissington
Administrative History	Having arrived in the town on Wednesday 4 December 1745, on Friday 6 December, the Jacobite Army, led by Bonnie Prince Charlie retreated from Derby having failed to proceed past Swarkestone in the south of the county.
Format	Document
Term	Second Jacobite Rebellion (1745)
Transcript or Index	Mansfield eleven o'clock Fryday Dec. 6 1745 Sir we were much allarm'd here last night with a report of the Rebels being within a few miles of this place the Derbyshire forces left us in no small hurry & confusion which contributed a good deal to encrease the allarm. we sent our horses to Warsop that they might be out of danger at all events & were resolved our serlves to wait the event the Rebels sending out of Derby to press for horses in some places there abouts was all the foundation there was for the Report by a person from Derby going to the Duke of Devonshire we hear the Rebels were at Derby at two o'clock this morning but seem'd preparing to march, as was supposed towards Leicester they were in possession of swarson [Swarkestone] bridge on the Trent and that part of the Duke's army was not far of them other reports say that the greatest part were supposed to be at or near Lichfield Yo'rs R. Knight

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