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Folios 128-129. From Charles, Viscount Townshend. To Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Place:...

Catalogue reference: SP 35/31/76

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This record is about the Folios 128-129. From Charles, Viscount Townshend. To Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Place:... dating from 1722 May 10 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 35/31/76
Date
1722 May 10
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Folios 128-129. From Charles, Viscount Townshend. To Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Place: Whitehall.

Stating that he has been commanded to acquaint the Lord Provost 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' and 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 Lord Provost will together with the other magistrates of the good city of Edinburgh will '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'. Copy.

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English
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