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Folio 216: Thompson to Newcastle. All or most of the Jacobites have left Paris and...

Catalogue reference: SP 78/229/83

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This record is about the Folio 216: Thompson to Newcastle. All or most of the Jacobites have left Paris and... dating from 1744 Mar 10 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, France. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 78/229/83
Date
1744 Mar 10
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Folio 216: Thompson to Newcastle. All or most of the Jacobites have left Paris and several [named] have gone to England; Charles Stuart somewhere near the coast in France; Russian and Swedish troops may join the invasion force; Jacobites dismayed at news of destruction of the Spanish fleet by Mathews, while the French warships apparently stood idly by; recommends that Salkeld be watched rather than arrested so that his accomplices may be caught; Sicilian Abbot worried that no arrangements for communication have been made in the event of Thompson leaving France.

Date and place: 1744 Mar 10 Paris.

Note
Copy of secret writing on f. 214.
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