Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we're still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

Item

Folios 49-50. Duke of Newcastle, Hanover, to the Earl of Holderness that the King...

Catalogue reference: SP 36/118/2/49

What’s it about?

This record is about the Folios 49-50. Duke of Newcastle, Hanover, to the Earl of Holderness that the King... dating from 1752 May 10 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

Access information is unavailable

Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.

Full description and record details

Reference
SP 36/118/2/49
Date
1752 May 10
Description

Folios 49-50. Duke of Newcastle, Hanover, to the Earl of Holderness that the King has appointed the Earl of Rothes in place of the late Earl of Dunmore as commander of the 3rd Regiment of Footguards and intends to appoint Sir John Ligonier as Governor of Plymouth [Devon] and Lord Delawarr [John West, 7th Baron De La Warr] as Governor of Guernsey. Instructions are to be given for the election by the Scottish peers of a peer of Scotland to serve in Parliament in place of the Earl of Dunmore, the [third] Earl of Breadalbane [John Campbell] being recommended by the King. Draft.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16962344/

Series information

SP 36

Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George II

See the series level description for more information about this record.

View series description

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

209,296 records

Within the department: SP

Records assembled by the State Paper Office, including papers of the Secretaries...

16,876 records

Within the series: SP 36

Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George II

108 records

Within the piece: SP 36/118

Letters and Papers. (Described at item level)

You are currently looking at the item: SP 36/118/2/49

Folios 49-50. Duke of Newcastle, Hanover, to the Earl of Holderness that the King...

Related records

Records that share similar topics with this record.