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Rhymes of Northern Bards

Note 59 — ON THE FIRST REBELLION.—1715.

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Thomas Forster, jun. of Etherston, near Belford, in Northumberland, member of Parliament of the said county, was made general of the Pretender’s Army; he was taken prisoner at Preston, but afterwards escaped out of Newgate, 1716.

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