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Folio 223: R. Walpole to Viscount Weymouth. Pombal has communicated to him the papers...

Catalogue reference: SP 89/82/78

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This record is about the Folio 223: R. Walpole to Viscount Weymouth. Pombal has communicated to him the papers... dating from 1776 July 20 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 89/82/78
Date
1776 July 20
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Folio 223: R. Walpole to Viscount Weymouth. Pombal has communicated to him the papers he has sent to Pinto de Sousa on the outbreak of fighting in South America, and which the latter is to communicate to Weymouth. Blames Spaniards for initiating hostilities and claims that the delay in sending orders from Lisbon to suspend hostilities was due to Grimaldi's reluctance to issue similar orders.

Date and place: 1776 July 20 Lisbon.

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