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Folios 110-111. From Richard Shaw. To Charles Delafaye. Place: Black and White Court,...

Catalogue reference: SP 35/33/60

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This record is about the Folios 110-111. From Richard Shaw. To Charles Delafaye. Place: Black and White Court,... dating from 1722 Sept 21 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 35/33/60
Date
1722 Sept 21
Description

Folios 110-111. From Richard Shaw. To Charles Delafaye. Place: Black and White Court, Old Bailey [London].

A letter making statements against printers and hawkers of libels, urging that searches be made aganist them for seditious material. Shaw mentions: Steward, who is in Clerkenwell Bridewell [London]; threats made against him by the wife of [Francis] Clifton; Saml [Samuel] Ridman, who can identify the author of a libel; 'one Watson a hawker in Harrow Court in Sumaker [?Shoemakers] Row [?London]'; and his own residence in 'Black and White Court of the Old Bailey, alias Hell on Earth'. The cover is endorsed: 'Gilbert'. (1) An enclosed pamphlet entitled 'The Hunting of the Newfound Dear, with its last Legacy', endorsed with the name Ann Bab alias Steward.

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