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Chesterfield to Cumberland: Cumberland must send five or six battalions to guard...

Catalogue reference: SP 87/23/198

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SP 87/23/198
Date
23 October 1747
Description

Chesterfield to Cumberland: Cumberland must send five or six battalions to guard the coasts of Kent and Sussex against an enemy attack in support of the Jacobites over the winter. The king wishes him to come to England as soon as possible. Dated (OS) at Whitehall. ff. 432, 433

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