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Folios 214-215. Letter from the Reverend Edward Meyrick, Vicar of Ramsbury, Wiltshire,...

Catalogue reference: HO 42/50/80

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This record is about the Folios 214-215. Letter from the Reverend Edward Meyrick, Vicar of Ramsbury, Wiltshire,... dating from 1800 June 12 in the series Home Office: Domestic Correspondence, George III. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 42/50/80
Date
1800 June 12
Description

Folios 214-215. Letter from the Reverend Edward Meyrick, Vicar of Ramsbury, Wiltshire, reporting the posting of a seditious paper on a tree in his parish and the destruction of a handbill posted by him on the same tree offering a 10 guinea reward for the discovery of the author.

Appended is the text of the seditious paper urging the removal of the Hanoverian royalty and the government that is leaving the poor to starve.

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