Item
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.
Item
Part 1, Folios 62-63. From Richard Shaw. To Charles Delafaye. A semi-legible letter...
Catalogue reference: SP 35/55/31
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This record is about the Part 1, Folios 62-63. From Richard Shaw. To Charles Delafaye. A semi-legible letter... dating from 1725 Jan 30 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Part 1, Folios 62-63. From Richard Shaw. To Charles Delafaye.
A semi-legible letter in which he describes Newgate as 'a hell on Earth' and gives information against Butler saying 'Butler the priest follows me. He says he will carry me privately to a head painter's for some Pretender's pictures with writing at the bottom and some of his new shillings'. He mentions Worrall, the 'Lamb' in Duke's Court St Martin's Lane and Captain Beak [?Bleak].
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