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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
Item
Folio 145: E. Hay to W. Pitt. Death of Queen of Spain. Accident to King Joseph as...
Catalogue reference: SP 89/51/60
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This record is about the Folio 145: E. Hay to W. Pitt. Death of Queen of Spain. Accident to King Joseph as... dating from 1758 Sept 13 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- SP 89/51/60
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1758 Sept 13
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Folio 145: E. Hay to W. Pitt. Death of Queen of Spain. Accident to King Joseph as the result of a fall on the night of 3 Sept. which incapacitates him from business. Queen is acting as Regent during his illness. Actually, the King was wounded in an attempt to assassinate him or the servant who was accompanying him, on a nocturnal visit to a mistress. Court trying to keep this a deep secret `but it is talked of abroad more publicly than prudently.'.
Date and place: 1758 Sept 13 Lisbon.
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- Partly in cipher.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal
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