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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 151: Sir H. Frankland to R. Wood. Arrival of cloth-weavers from England under...
Catalogue reference: SP 89/54/45
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This record is about the Folio 151: Sir H. Frankland to R. Wood. Arrival of cloth-weavers from England under... dating from 1761 May 20 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1761 May 20
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Folio 151: Sir H. Frankland to R. Wood. Arrival of cloth-weavers from England under a Portuguese overseer to establish improved textile production at Covilhã; being arranged very secretly by Count of Oeiras with active assistance of `a considerable British merchant of this Factory.' Portuguese will endeavour to recruit more, if not prevented, but he doubts if project will succeed. Complains that packet-boat captains will not call for his dispatches, and wishes the P.M.G. would order them to do so.
Date and place: 1761 May 20 Lisbon.
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