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Folio 170. [James Vernon] asking Ambassador [Joseph] Williamson to employ all fitting...

Catalogue reference: SP 32/8/100

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This record is about the Folio 170. [James Vernon] asking Ambassador [Joseph] Williamson to employ all fitting... dating from 1697 Nov 23 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 32/8/100
Date
1697 Nov 23
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Folio 170. [James Vernon] asking Ambassador [Joseph] Williamson to employ all fitting endeavours to procure Captain [William] Cadogan's release. Major General [Thomas] Erle with some of his officers was taken by a Dunkirk privateer; and only one of the hostages given by Erle to answer their ransom has been sent back; the other, Captain Cadogan, is still detained at Dunkirk, upon pretence that the privateer that took them has not been suffered to return since she was brought in by the Maidstone.

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Language
English
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