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John Cather

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Type of entity: Person

Name: John Cather

Source of information: Special Collections

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Roth Collection 196: The Tryal of John Cather, Adam Nixon, David Alexander, and Patrick Cain, otherwise Kane, at the King's-Bench, in Westminster-hall, by a special jury of gentlemen, on Friday the 5th of July, 1751, for a conspiracy against the Hon. Edward Walpole, esq. : in endeavouring to extort money from him, under pretence of an assault with an intent to commit buggery on the body of John Cather; with copies of the several records, and original papers relating thereto, and at the end of which trial is inserted a full and impartial narrative of the whole of the wicked conspiracy, particularly that of the attempt to charge Mr. Walpole with forgery : to which is annexed... an examined copy of the remarkable record on which the defendants were tried for the said conspiracy