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Folio 141. Letter from Lord Carmarthen to the King. 'I have so little to say that...

Catalogue reference: SP 8/8/88

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SP 8/8/88
Date
1691 Feb 13
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Folio 141. Letter from Lord Carmarthen to the King. 'I have so little to say that I should not have troubled your Majesty this post were it not that the Queen told me this day that the Commissioners of the Treasury have desired her not to sign my warrant for my pension upon the Post Office till she knows your further pleasure and that she had consented to their request but would write to your Majesty this night about it. I hope I shall not need to say anything to your Majesty concerning it your pleasure having been so fully declared already and I am sure I need not tell your Majesty how few my friends are in the Treasury, insomuch that I doubt not but the best of their endeavours will be used to prevent your favour. Since you continue in your resolution to break Colonel Russell's regiment, I hope you will dispose of him in some kind way that may make him easy, because it would be inconvenient to have him under a temptation of being against yourself in a country which he knows as well as he does Ireland'.

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English
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