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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.
Item
Part 2, Folios 33-37. From Colonel Duroure [De Roure]. Place: Birmingham, Warwickshire....
Catalogue reference: SP 35/41/86
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Part 2, Folios 33-37. From Colonel Duroure [De Roure]. Place: Birmingham, Warwickshire.
A letter concerning James Okes [?Oakes] alias Whitroe, recaptured and committed to Warwick [Warwickshire] Gaol by Sir Henry Gough after being named in the [London] Gazette. The letter refers to Okes absconding after previously being committed for drinking [Jacobite] toasts to the Duke of Ormonde. The letter was written at the behest of Brigadier Grove. (1) The text of two poems, beginning: 'Ah, you charmer of all charming Ladys, Who's banished now from your own home ', and 'The world now abandons poor Jemmy, and will not remember what's past ' (2) A memorandum concerning James Oky alias [?James] Whitroe, seized in Derby [Derbyshire] and now in gaol there or in Warwick [Warwickshire], and accused of attempting to persuade a soldier to drink the health of the 'Pretender' [James Francis Edward Stuart. Mentions Major De Roure at Birmingham [Warwickshire].
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Part 2, Folios 33-37. From Colonel Duroure [De Roure]. Place: Birmingham, Warwickshire....
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