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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
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Folio 279: E. Hay to Earl of Halifax. Renewed drive by the government against gold...
Catalogue reference: SP 89/58/113
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This record is about the Folio 279: E. Hay to Earl of Halifax. Renewed drive by the government against gold... dating from 1763 Dec 3 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- SP 89/58/113
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1763 Dec 3
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Folio 279: E. Hay to Earl of Halifax. Renewed drive by the government against gold smuggling and seizures of contraband gold under new tough law. His interview with Francisco Xavier de Mendonça on this problem and advice that matters should not be pushed too far asthe merchant community was very upset. Mendonça replied that British merchants had no need to worry just now, but should be strictly ordered not to receive any contraband gold, as Crown was determined to enforce the laws.
Date and place: 1763 Dec 3 Lisbon.
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- Secret.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6846630/
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Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal
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