Manuscript letters and papers

Item author: Captain James Clavering of Stow House
Item date: 1715 - 17
Grant Value: 1,250
Item cost: 4,100
Item date acquired: 1998
Item institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham

Papers dealing with the security measures taken in northern England at the time of the 1715 Jacobite Rising. Clavering commanded one of the two troops of militia raised by the Lord Lieutenant of County Durham, the Earl of Scarbrough, and these papers give a vivid picture of Claverings intelligence gathering activities