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Folios 69-70. An unsigned newsletter [endorsed from Robert Yard] to Sir Joseph Williamson,...

Catalogue reference: SP 32/7/48

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This record is about the Folios 69-70. An unsigned newsletter [endorsed from Robert Yard] to Sir Joseph Williamson,... dating from 1697 June 1 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, William and Mary. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 32/7/48
Date
1697 June 1
Description

Folios 69-70. An unsigned newsletter [endorsed from Robert Yard] to Sir Joseph Williamson, dated at Whitehall [Middlesex]. Reports on: Sir George Rook [Rooke] having sailed with the great ships from 'the Nore' [Thames Estuary] to the Downes; the embarkation of five regiments to Flanders; the planned encampment of regiments near town [London] at Black heath [Blackheath, Kent]; the arrival in Chester [Cheshire] of the Lords Justices and the Lord Chancellor of Ireland [John Methuen], their meeting with the Bishop, Mayor and aldermen, and their intended journey to Ireland, via Holyhead [Anglesey], on the Penzance frigate and the Loessdyke yacht; Colonel Cornwall 'by some accident' shooting his man dead.

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