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Folio 82. Anonymous letter from T N P to [?Lord Hillsborough]. 'If the Catholic Bill...

Catalogue reference: SP 37/21/48

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SP 37/21/48
Date
1780 June 15
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Folio 82. Anonymous letter from T N P to [?Lord Hillsborough]. 'If the Catholic Bill is repealed and a law is not immediately made to have the militia augmented thirty thousand effective men and if there is not also another Act passed to give the military a greater power to suppress riots at the onset without the aid of Civil Magistrates this country is absolutely ruined'. P[ost S[cript]' Is it not very bad policy to countenance individuals to arm themselves particularly as men now think and when they may be led on by a weak self interested ambitious and long disappointed a minority (and one part of it wealthy) for the worst of purposes?'.

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