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Folio 93. From [? Sir Charles Bickerstaffe, clerk of the Privy Seal, subsequently...

Catalogue reference: SP 105/82/93

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This record is about the Folio 93. From [? Sir Charles Bickerstaffe, clerk of the Privy Seal, subsequently... dating from 1693 Mar 21/31 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Archives of British Legations. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 105/82/93
Date
1693 Mar 21/31
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Folio 93. From [? Sir Charles Bickerstaffe, clerk of the Privy Seal, subsequently deputy lieutenant of Kent]. Sends Stepney, 'agent to the Emperor's court and in other places', a copy of his privy seal, dated Mar 24 [i.e. 21/31], for £3 a day for his 'ordinary entertainment', to commence with Dec 11 [i.e. 11/21] last, with the usual clause for allowance of his extraordinaries. Adds: '... The King goes from hence on Friday next [Mar 24/Apr 3], he has [not] yet declared a new secretary, but if he does before he goes ''tis thought Mr Montague will be the man [for] about half a yeare, a quo Dr [George] Oxenden [master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge] was made vice chancellor of the university of Cambridge which your sister desires you might know. All friends are well. Adieu'. [Unsigned].

Date and Place: 1693 Mar 21/31 London

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Publication note(s)
For further particulars cf. Cal.Treas.Bks., x/pt.1, 1935, 101.
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6822273/

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