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Folio 232: Thompson to Newcastle. He showed Wasner Newcastle's letter [f.221]. Wasner...

Catalogue reference: SP 78/224/77

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SP 78/224/77
Date
1740 Nov 22
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Folio 232: Thompson to Newcastle. He showed Wasner Newcastle's letter [f.221]. Wasner says that Fleury has repeated his intention of respecting the Pragmatic Sanction; France accepts Austrian view that Ferdinand I's will does not justify the claims by the Elector of Bavaria to Bohemia and Hungary. The French Court has now `owned' the manifesto [f.227] which has been circulated to test French public reaction and brace the nation for a possible war; French army amounts to between 120,000 and 130,000 men; naval strength, preparations and details of dispositions.

Date and place: 1740 Nov 22 Paris.

Note
Enclosing f.240 and f.256
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