John James Jellens

John James jellens was a Frenchman "taken in actual rebellion". —S.P.D., 81-88. At his trial at York on 2nd Oct. 1746 he was charged with being concerned in plundering Lord Lonsdale's house of Lowther Hall in Westmoreland.

He pleaded he was a servant of a Dutch officer, and therefore did not owe allegiance to the British crown, but it was ruled that he had acquired a local allegiance to the Crown. Consequently he was sentenced to death. On the day fixed for his execution he was reprieved.

Ref:—Scots Mag., Oct. 1746, 485 ; S.P.D., 88-42 ; P.R., 3625-21.