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Folio 114: Thomas Lumley to Lord Carteret. Will do his best to explain and justify...

Catalogue reference: SP 89/30/54

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This record is about the Folio 114: Thomas Lumley to Lord Carteret. Will do his best to explain and justify... dating from 1722 Dec 19, NS in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 89/30/54
Date
1722 Dec 19, NS
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Folio 114: Thomas Lumley to Lord Carteret. Will do his best to explain and justify to Portuguese why King George has imposed an extraordinary subsidy of £100,000 on the lands of his Roman Catholic subjects. Incident between the boat's crew of H.M.S. Lynn and some Portuguese soldiers with copies of relevant correspondence (ff.118, 122). Encloses copy of his memorial on the church for the English Factory at Oporto (f.120). Mr Worsley has left in H.M.S. Lynn for Barbados having been received with greatest courtesy by King, Court, and Secretary of State. Revolution (f.112) now reported to be in a desperate condition and likely to turn pirate.

Date and place: 1722 Dec 19, NS Lisbon.

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