Examination of the claim of John Lindsay Crawfurd
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JOHN LINDSAY CRAWFURD. 15
The claimant practised on the credulity and purses of the people The daim-
at Kilbirnie for some years. In the meantime he commenced his cTedLgTat
judicial proceedings. He went to Edinburgh, and having employ-
ed Mr James Lang, writer, took out a brief, in March, 1810, for
serving: himself heir-male of John, first Viscount of Garnock. This
being opposed by Lady M. L. Crawfurd, a proof was allowed, and
taken at Ayr and in Ireland. Having failed in this essential de-
partment, Mr Lang gave up the case, and the claimant employed
Mr Andrew Steele, W.S., who, seeing the doubtful appearance of
the oral evidence, suggested a search for written documents, to
prove the connexion between James Crawfurd, the ancestor of the
claimant, and the house of Kilbirnie. Written documents were
found and given to Mr Steele, who judicially produced them for the
claimant in his service in June, 1811. These documents being for- Accused of
geries, the claimant was accused of being accessory to the forgery
of them, or at least of using them for his own purposes, knowing
them to be forged ; and he, along with James Bradley, a person to be
afterwards more particularly noticed, was brought to trial before the
High Court of Justiciary, in February, 1812; both were sentenced to Tried and
fourteen years' transportation. While under sentence, the claimant
wrote a sketch of his life, which was printed at Dairy, in Ayrshire,
and published before the sentence was carried into execution. The
claimant arrived in New South Wales in October, 1813, and having His return
ingratiated himself with Governor MacQuarrie, got part of his sTmhwXs.
punishment remitted, and returned to Great Britain in 1820. He His pro-
recommenced his proceedings, and as his unexpected return seemed cLmfnced-
to imply that he had been unjustly transported, his friends took
encouragement from this circumstance, and again came forward with
subscriptions and advances for him. His case was put under charge Mr Henry
of Mr Henry Nugent Bell of London, and it is said that no less a employed."
sum than L.5036, 3s. was put into his hands for prosecuting the claim.
Mr Bell was known as the successful conductor of the case for the
claimant of the Huntingdon Peerage, and was by profession a
genealogist. He went to Ireland and Scotland to investigate Mr
Crawfurd's claims, and on his return to London, prepared and print- case P re P a.
ed a Case, which was to be laid before the Lords' Committee of Pri- "
The claimant practised on the credulity and purses of the people The daim-
at Kilbirnie for some years. In the meantime he commenced his cTedLgTat
judicial proceedings. He went to Edinburgh, and having employ-
ed Mr James Lang, writer, took out a brief, in March, 1810, for
serving: himself heir-male of John, first Viscount of Garnock. This
being opposed by Lady M. L. Crawfurd, a proof was allowed, and
taken at Ayr and in Ireland. Having failed in this essential de-
partment, Mr Lang gave up the case, and the claimant employed
Mr Andrew Steele, W.S., who, seeing the doubtful appearance of
the oral evidence, suggested a search for written documents, to
prove the connexion between James Crawfurd, the ancestor of the
claimant, and the house of Kilbirnie. Written documents were
found and given to Mr Steele, who judicially produced them for the
claimant in his service in June, 1811. These documents being for- Accused of
geries, the claimant was accused of being accessory to the forgery
of them, or at least of using them for his own purposes, knowing
them to be forged ; and he, along with James Bradley, a person to be
afterwards more particularly noticed, was brought to trial before the
High Court of Justiciary, in February, 1812; both were sentenced to Tried and
fourteen years' transportation. While under sentence, the claimant
wrote a sketch of his life, which was printed at Dairy, in Ayrshire,
and published before the sentence was carried into execution. The
claimant arrived in New South Wales in October, 1813, and having His return
ingratiated himself with Governor MacQuarrie, got part of his sTmhwXs.
punishment remitted, and returned to Great Britain in 1820. He His pro-
recommenced his proceedings, and as his unexpected return seemed cLmfnced-
to imply that he had been unjustly transported, his friends took
encouragement from this circumstance, and again came forward with
subscriptions and advances for him. His case was put under charge Mr Henry
of Mr Henry Nugent Bell of London, and it is said that no less a employed."
sum than L.5036, 3s. was put into his hands for prosecuting the claim.
Mr Bell was known as the successful conductor of the case for the
claimant of the Huntingdon Peerage, and was by profession a
genealogist. He went to Ireland and Scotland to investigate Mr
Crawfurd's claims, and on his return to London, prepared and print- case P re P a.
ed a Case, which was to be laid before the Lords' Committee of Pri- "
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