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Folios 370-371. Copy of a letter [original at HO 42/23/171] from Sir William Molesworth...

Catalogue reference: HO 42/23/158

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This record is about the Folios 370-371. Copy of a letter [original at HO 42/23/171] from Sir William Molesworth... dating from 1792 Dec 14 in the series Home Office: Domestic Correspondence, George III. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 42/23/158

Date

1792 Dec 14

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Folios 370-371. Copy of a letter [original at HO 42/23/171] from Sir William Molesworth of Pencarrow [Cornwall], reporting action taken to pacify the miners in the west of the county who believed that corn was being exported from Wadebridge and Padstow. Molesworth and Sir Francis Basset [MP for Penryn] had now bought the corn cellared at Wadebridge and were shipping it to Portreath, the port for the mining area.

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English

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Home Office: Domestic Correspondence, George III

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