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Cipher key enclosed in SP 35/71/61.
Catalogue reference: SP 35/71/62
Date: Undated [1719-1722]
Cipher key enclosed in SP 35/71/61.
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Folios 116-117. From Charles, Viscount Townshend. To Lord Mayor of London. Place:...
Catalogue reference: SP 35/31/69
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- 1722 May 8
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Folios 116-117. From Charles, Viscount Townshend. To Lord Mayor of London. Place: Whitehall.
Stating that he has been commanded to acquaint the Lord Mayor that the King 'has received repeated and unquestionable advices, that several of his subjects, forgetting the allegiance they owe to his Majesty, as well as the natural love they ought to bear to their country, have entered into a wicked conspiracy in concert with traitors abroad, for raising a [Jacobite] rebellion in this kingdom, in favour of a popish pretender, with a traitorous design to overthrow our excellent constitution both in Church and State, and to subject a Protestant free people to tyranny and superstition' but is persuaded it will be a great satisfaction to the Mayor and city that not only are they being informed of this but also that the King 'is firmly assured that the authors of it neither are nor will be supported, nor even countenanced by any foreign power. And as his Majesty has had timely notice of their wicked machinations, and has made proper dispositions for defeating them, he has no reason to doubt, but by the continuance of the blessing of Almighty God, and the ready assistance of his faithful subjects, this effort of the malice of his enemies will be turned to their own confusion'. The King does not doubt that the Mayor will together with the other magistrates 'exert with the utmost care and vigilance' their authority 'at so important a conjuncture, for the preservation of the public peace, and the security of the City'.
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Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George I
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