James Miller

James Miller was an English, Catholic, Jacobite sympathiser. He joined the Manchester Regiment and was captured at the fall of Carlisle on the 30th December 1745 and was sent to York Castle along with many of the garrison. He was later transferred to Lancaster Prison

After being held for some months in Lancaster he was sent for trial to Carlisle on 9th September. He pleaded guilty, and on 19th September 1746 was sentenced to death. On 14th November, the day before his execution, he was reprieved : instead of being transported he accepted the offer of enlistment in one of the "Independent Companies" being raised for Admiral Boscawen's expedition to India against the French.

He wrote a diary of his time time in prison and of his time during the ill fated expedition. He says a considerable number of other prisoners enlisted. He embarked on 20th October, and the fleet sailed for India on 25th October. Many of the troops succumbed to disease and the expedition was a complete disaster. 1746.—S.PD., 81-76 ;

Ref:- ' The Diary of James Miller, 1745-50,' in Journal of Army Historical Research, vol. iii. p. 208 ; P.R., 3526-21