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Folios 260-266. Charles Yorke, Attorney-General, and Fletcher Norton, Solicitor-General,...

Catalogue reference: SP 37/1/113

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This record is about the Folios 260-266. Charles Yorke, Attorney-General, and Fletcher Norton, Solicitor-General,... dating from 1762 July 7 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George III. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 37/1/113
Date
1762 July 7
Description

Folios 260-266. Charles Yorke, Attorney-General, and Fletcher Norton, Solicitor-General, to the King. Report of their Opinion 'what might regularly and properly be done' in relation to the petition of Washington, Earl Ferrers by which he prays for the grant to him all the real and personal estates of his late brother Lawrence, Earl Ferrers, forfeited to the Crown on the latter's conviction of felony and murder. Names mentioned are Joseph Gascoyne Nightingale, William Kingstone (Chancery Master), Mary, Countess Ferrers, Frederick Campbell, Theophilus Meredith, Samuel Wright, Humphrey Coates, Frederick Lincke, John Stephenson [Stevenson], Margaret Clifford of Staunton Harold [Leicestershire] and her children Margaret, Anna Maria, Elizabeth and Mary, John Lambert (Keeper of Leicester jail), the Foundling Hospital for Destitute Children, Walter Shirley of Loughrea, Galway, Charlotte Digby widow of Edward Digby, Sarah, Mary, Thomas and John Johnson children of John Johnson deceased, and John Dashwood King.

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Language
English
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