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Sir George Downing, William Blathwayte, Van Beuningen (Paris), Ambassador Van Goghe...
Catalogue reference: SP 84/178
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1665 Sept-Dec
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Sir George Downing, William Blathwayte, Van Beuningen (Paris), Ambassador Van Goghe (Chelsea), Monsr St Paul. Charles II (copies of correspondence with States General), James Watson, Thomas Exton, - ?Charisius (Resident of Denmark); a list of Dutch prisoners with the names of the ships they were taken in (ff 17-22); `The condition of the [Dutch] militia aswell foot as horse ye 15th of December 1665' (ff 45-46 in English, ff 43-44 in Dutch); report by John van Messem to Secretary of State Lord Arlington on Dutch prisoners at Colchester; extracts from the register of resolutions of the States General
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- International
- Army
- Europe and Russia
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