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Part 1, Folios 174-175. Letter dated at London from the Duke of York to the Prince...

Catalogue reference: SP 8/3/89

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SP 8/3/89
Date
1683 Dec 7
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Part 1, Folios 174-175. Letter dated at London from the Duke of York to the Prince of Orange. He expects the Prince will be as surprised at the news of the Duke of Monmouth's banishment from Whitehall as he was at the Duke's coming in and being permitted to stay at Court. The Duke gives an account of the King's reasons for ordering Monmouth to quit the Court and expresses the view that it is now 'visible to all the world that he only designed by his coming in to get his pardon and to keep his credit with party still, both which he has now done and though his coming in and being pardoned as he was has done some harm, I hope this good will come of it, that his Majesty will now never believe anything he says again, and then he can do but little harm'. Of Algernon Sidney the Duke writes that he 'was beheaded this day, died very resolutely and like a true republican'.

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