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Sheet Number SP 89 SE
Catalogue reference: OS 42/19382
Date: 1976 May 06
Sheet Number SP 89 SE
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Folio 245: John Methuen to Sir Charles Hedges. Two English warships going to Rio...
Catalogue reference: SP 89/18/142
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This record is about the Folio 245: John Methuen to Sir Charles Hedges. Two English warships going to Rio... dating from 1705 May 7-May 8 NS in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- SP 89/18/142
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- 1705 May 7-May 8 NS
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Folio 245: John Methuen to Sir Charles Hedges. Two English warships going to Rio de Janeiro at Portuguese request. Portuguese regiment in the Algarve intended for Gibraltar now going to Alentejo. Gunpowder for King of Portugal. Intelligence of French and Spanish naval movements from Cadiz. French and Spanish losses in siege of Gibraltar. Operations on the Alentejo front. King Pedro too ill to go to the front, but will not let the King of Spain go without him. Encloses a report (f.244) just received of the capture of Valencia by the Marquis das Minas.
Date and place: 1705 May 7, NS PS of May 8 Lisbon.
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