Item
Duplicate of SP 78/278 f.252 [see also SP 78/f.250].
Catalogue reference: SP 78/279/3
Date: 1769 nd
Duplicate of SP 78/278 f.252 [see also SP 78/f.250].
Item
Folio 56: Porten to Shelburne. Sartine, lt. general of police, has arrested two strangers...
Catalogue reference: SP 78/271/26
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This record is about the Folio 56: Porten to Shelburne. Sartine, lt. general of police, has arrested two strangers... dating from 1766 Oct 12 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, France. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1766 Oct 12
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Folio 56: Porten to Shelburne. Sartine, lt. general of police, has arrested two strangers coming from Boulogne and distributing counterfeit French crowns en route. Both are in the Châtelet prison. Coins were found on one, John Benson, who said he had got them fromone Carton in London. A report is enclosed [f.59]. Benson can give no reference in London. It is probably not his real name. His companion is John Gottfried Hermann of Hamburg. Enclosed description of Benson [f.63].
Date and place: 1766 Oct 12 Paris.
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