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Part 2, Folios 157-158. From The Director of the Post Office in Louvain [Austrian...

Catalogue reference: SP 35/65/185

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SP 35/65/185
Date
[c 1724]
Description

Part 2, Folios 157-158. From The Director of the Post Office in Louvain [Austrian Netherlands]. To Lord Townsend.

A memoir concerning instructions to open the correspondence of [the exiled Jacobite] Bishop of Rochester [Francis Atterbury], when he was in Brussels, as his letters passed through the post office in Louvain [Austrian Netherlands]. The director says he was not fluent in English and spent countless nights copying everything but, unlike his counterpart in Brussels, he never received any compensation for his work. He would like to know if 'Sir Maky' [?the spy, John Macky] had a reward for him, and if he should continue his work for the Crown. Also mentions the Duke of Grafton's government in Ireland. [Note on dating: Atterbury was in Brussels in June 1723].

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French
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