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Folios 36-37. Francis Lee to [Duke of Newcastle]. He has had many opportunities to...

Catalogue reference: SP 36/77/1/36

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This record is about the Folios 36-37. Francis Lee to [Duke of Newcastle]. He has had many opportunities to... dating from 1745 Dec 13 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 36/77/1/36
Date
1745 Dec 13
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Folios 36-37. Francis Lee to [Duke of Newcastle]. He has had many opportunities to gain information about the courts of Rome and France. Lee offers to expose to public view the origins and designs of the present [Jacobite] rebellion. He also offers to expose details of the 'Popish Emissaries' currently in Great Britain and Ireland and to indicate methods of frustrating their aims. The public part of this plan would be executed under the title 'Britanics, or Orations...' Refers to 'a Scare-Crow Pretender'. Dated at London.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Folios 40-41
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15668227/

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