Item
Duplicate of SP 42/8/142
Catalogue reference: SP 42/8/143
Date: 1710 December 6
Duplicate of SP 42/8/142
Item
Copy of a letter from Captain Saunders commander of HMS 'Superb[e]' in the Downs,...
Catalogue reference: SP 42/15/80
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1716 May 13
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Description (What the record is about)
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Copy of a letter from Captain Saunders commander of HMS 'Superb[e]' in the Downs, relating to intelligence from Calais. Includes a report of an English genteel woman who claims to have helped the [Jacobite] prisoners escape from Newgate, and news of the arrival of a Swedish dogger privateer (with Scots crew members aboard) which sent in two small Danish prizes.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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