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Folio 129: Complaint from Pontchartrain against commissary for exchange of prisoners...

Catalogue reference: SP 78/156/53

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This record is about the Folio 129: Complaint from Pontchartrain against commissary for exchange of prisoners... dating from 1712 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, France. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 78/156/53
Date
1712
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Folio 129: Complaint from Pontchartrain against commissary for exchange of prisoners at Plymouth. British officials are taking bribes to release French prisoners out of turn. Over a thousand died in Plymouth gaol in three months due to starvation and insanitary conditions.

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The National Archives, Kew
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Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, France

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