Jacobite Traitors: Sir John the Detective

Description:One document amongst Sir John’s personal papers is signed ‘your humble Servant D G____h’ and appears to be from an informer, passing information to Sir John and his associates about a potential traitor who the document indicates was named Cato. The informer states that he ‘spoke to Mrs Trenchard last night…I told her…that I found all my friends very Inclinable to serve Cato, and that I wisht he would act and speak as bold & freely as he wrote’. The author informs Sir John that Mrs. Trenchard ‘asur’d me that whatever he ingag’d to do he would always perform’. He concludes by advising Sir John ‘when you see him your cosn & friends may discourse that point with him, which could only be hinted’.