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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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Folio 127. From Charles, Viscount Townshend. To Earl of Orkney, Governor of Edinburgh...
Catalogue reference: SP 35/31/75
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Folio 127. From Charles, Viscount Townshend. To Earl of Orkney, Governor of Edinburgh Castle. Place: Whitehall.
Stating that, in light of the information received by the King of an intended [Jacobite] insurrection, he is forthwith to give the necessary orders for putting his 'garrison into as good a condition as the present juncture can admit of' and to keep a watchful eye in order to prevent any attempts to disturb the peace. He is to take care in that in complying with his orders he does 'not to put the King to any new expense' until he [the Earl] has represented the occasion there is for it and received particular directions thereupon'. An endorsement notes that the like letter is to be written to Brigadier Preston, Deputy Governor of Edinburgh Castle; the Earl of Glencairn, Governor of Dunbarton and Major Turnbull, his deputy; Sir Robert Pollock, Governor of Fort William and Major Cunningham, his deputy; Lord William Hay, Governor of Blackness [Castle] and Colonel Johnston, his deputy; the Earl of Rothes, Governor of Stirling Castle and Colonel Blackadair, his deputy. Copy.
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