Note 136 — JOURNAL OF ELIZABETH LADY HOLLAND (continued 2)
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Perhaps the adventurer, James George Semple, alias Semple Lisle, the son of an exciseman, who lived an adventurous life on the Continent and in England, where he was several times sentenced to imprisonment for fraudulent transactions. It is stated in the Dictionary of National Biography that the last thing known of him is in 1799, when he was still in confinement in Tothill Fields prison.