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Sheet Number SP 89 SE
Catalogue reference: OS 42/19383
Date: 1976 May 06 - 1985 May 02
Sheet Number SP 89 SE
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Folio 163: James Dormer to Duke of Newcastle. Gunpowder for Gibraltar, the Spanish...
Catalogue reference: SP 89/34/82
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This record is about the Folio 163: James Dormer to Duke of Newcastle. Gunpowder for Gibraltar, the Spanish... dating from 1727 June 9, NS in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1727 June 9, NS
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Folio 163: James Dormer to Duke of Newcastle. Gunpowder for Gibraltar, the Spanish ambassador's efforts to prevent its dispatch, and his own arguments with the Secretary of State to connive at it. King of Portugal eventually gave permission. Forwards letters from Sir Charles Wager. The Portuguese warship Victoria, variously reported as bound for Mazagão, for Cape Verde islands (to stop the reported sale of St. Antonio to the English), and to the Azores to fetch the Spanish silver (f.146) thence. Forwards a letter from Consul Parker with news of loss and recapture of the Lake. Spanish protest so far ignored by the Court. Is celebrating H.M. birthday by asking the British Factory to dinner.
Date and place: 1727 June 9, NS Lisbon.
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