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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 345: Viscount Weymouth to John Whitehead. Has been informed that great quantities...
Catalogue reference: SP 89/85/129
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This record is about the Folio 345: Viscount Weymouth to John Whitehead. Has been informed that great quantities... dating from 1778 July 28 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- SP 89/85/129
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1778 July 28
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Folio 345: Viscount Weymouth to John Whitehead. Has been informed that great quantities of gunpowder have been placed on board Portuguese ships at Amsterdam, ostensibly consigned to Oporto, but suspected to be `ultimately designed for the American colonies in rebellion'. He is to check and report back.
Date and place: 1778 July 28 London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- See f.485 for answer.
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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/C6848699/
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SP 89
Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal
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