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Sheet Number SP 89 SE
Catalogue reference: OS 42/19382
Date: 1976 May 06
Sheet Number SP 89 SE
Item
Folio 250: Thomas Burnett to Duke of Newcastle. The four sailors from the William...
Catalogue reference: SP 89/34/128
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This record is about the Folio 250: Thomas Burnett to Duke of Newcastle. The four sailors from the William... dating from 1727 Sept 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 Sept 9, NS
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Folio 250: Thomas Burnett to Duke of Newcastle. The four sailors from the William & Elizabeth accused of murdering their master, William Mitchell as per his letter of 22 May 1726 (S.P.89/33, f.87), together with a fifth (who confessed) captured and imprisoned latermay shortly be released if brought to trial, for lack of evidence. Encloses copies of the relevant correspondence with Dormer and the Portuguese lawyers (ff.242-46), and shows that he has not neglected his duty `in an affair which certainly deserved an exemplary punishment.'.
Date and place: 1727 Sept 9, NS Lisbon.
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