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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 242: E. Hay to W. Pitt. Seizure of money in the street from Humphrey Bunster...
Catalogue reference: SP 89/51/88
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This record is about the Folio 242: E. Hay to W. Pitt. Seizure of money in the street from Humphrey Bunster... dating from 1759 Apr 2 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1759 Apr 2
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Folio 242: E. Hay to W. Pitt. Seizure of money in the street from Humphrey Bunster of H.M.S. Hanover, details of tedious legal wrangle which ensued and final decision confiscating the money. This has greatly alarmed the British Factory who have presented the enclosed petition (f.245) demanding redress. New French ambassador expected at the end of May. Encloses copies of papers relevant to Bunster case (ff.245-252).
Date and place: 1759 Apr 2 Lisbon.
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