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Cumberland to Bedford: he assumes that Newcastle has left for Hanover and will write...

Catalogue reference: SP 87/26/3

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This record is about the Cumberland to Bedford: he assumes that Newcastle has left for Hanover and will write... dating from 25 June 1748 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Military Expeditions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 87/26/3
Date
25 June 1748
Description

Cumberland to Bedford: he assumes that Newcastle has left for Hanover and will write to Bedford to lay before the lords justices. He encloses a dispatch from Sandwich with a plan for peace. Bathiani has detached troops into Luxembourg, as he could not afford to keep them at Roermond. He fears their army may disintegrate and recommends they be paid what they are owed under the two conventions. The states [general] have agreed for Cumberland's troops to be cantoned in the Netherlands. Dated at headquarters at Nistelrode. ff. 6, 7

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