Item
Duplicate of SP 42/8/122
Catalogue reference: SP 42/8/123
Date: 1710 October 21
Duplicate of SP 42/8/122
Item
Folios 102-103. A letter from the Marquis of [Lord President] Carmarthen to King...
Catalogue reference: SP 8/7/52
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This record is about the Folios 102-103. A letter from the Marquis of [Lord President] Carmarthen to King... dating from 1690 June 16 in the series King William's Chest. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1690 June 16
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Folios 102-103. A letter from the Marquis of [Lord President] Carmarthen to King [William III], dated at London, concerning difficulties with committing sensitive intelligence to the ordinary post or expresses, an inconvenience also suffered by Malburow [the Earl of Marlborough]. Mentions: [Post Master General] Major [John] Wildman; addressing correspondence via Monsieur Munmouth [?Monmouth] at Amsterdam [Netherlands]; news heard by Lord Munmouth of 5,000 troops landing in Scotland, brought by a messenger who'd made the journey to London in 48 hours; and [orders] from lords of the cabinet council that regiments from Holland might camp in Hyde Park [Middlesex].
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- English
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King William's Chest
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