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Folio 52: Kinnoull to W. Pitt. Reactions to recent changes of the government at Madrid....

Catalogue reference: SP 89/53/10

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This record is about the Folio 52: Kinnoull to W. Pitt. Reactions to recent changes of the government at Madrid.... dating from 1760 July 23 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 89/53/10
Date
1760 July 23
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Folio 52: Kinnoull to W. Pitt. Reactions to recent changes of the government at Madrid. Disgrace of two of the natural sons of the late King John V, on the grounds that they had been intriguing with the Papal Nuncio. The Pope had done his utmost to avoid a break with Portugal by meeting all the Portuguese demands and dropping his support of the Jesuits and of the Nuncio. Merle is going to France on leave, and Kinnoull hopes the Lagos affair will be allowed to drop.

Date and place: 1760 July 23 Lisbon.

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Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal

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Earl of Kinnoull, Edward Hay and Mathew Hiccox

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