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Sheet Number SP 89 SE
Catalogue reference: OS 42/19382
Date: 1976 May 06
Sheet Number SP 89 SE
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Folio 265: R. Walpole to Sir Stanier Porten. Says he has given a letter of introduction...
Catalogue reference: SP 89/92/63
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This record is about the Folio 265: R. Walpole to Sir Stanier Porten. Says he has given a letter of introduction... dating from 1780 Aug 21 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1780 Aug 21
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Folio 265: R. Walpole to Sir Stanier Porten. Says he has given a letter of introduction to him for Mr Henry O'Neill, an Irish adventurer in Danish service, who has just arrived from Spain and claims to be in possession of most secret intelligence of such importancethat he will only reveal it to a minister of the Crown. Walpole is rather sceptical, and leaves it to Porten whether O'Neil should be introduced to Hillsborough.
Date and place: 1780 Aug 21 Lisbon.
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