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
Folios 71-75. From Robt [Robert] Baylis; T [Thomas] Walker; Charles Peers; J [John]...
Catalogue reference: SP 35/25/41
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1721 Jan 31
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Folios 71-75. From Robt [Robert] Baylis; T [Thomas] Walker; Charles Peers; J [John] Stanley; J [John] Pulteney. To Earl of Stanhope. Place: Customs House [London].
A letter from the customs commissioners accompanying an officer detaining [Thomas] Carter, a waterman, who hired a boat allowing the escape to France of Robert] Knight, cashier of the South Sea [Bubble] Company. Enclosing: (1) Information of John Purnell, customs officer of Margate [Kent] concerning Knight's escape to Calais aboard an East Indiaman, Anthony Hampton master, including the evidence of a sailor William Shillingfort. (2) Information of Joseph Beverton, customs officers at Canterbury [Kent] concerning his detention of Hampton, commander of the 'Betty' sloop. Mentions: letters from Knight to Mrs Mary Thompson, directed to South Sea House, and to Lady Knapp in Denmark Street; and Sir George Bing [Byng].
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- English
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Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George I
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