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HO 42. Letters and papers.
Catalogue reference: HO 42/42
Date: 1798 Jan 01-1798 Mar 31
HO 42. Letters and papers.
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Folios 357-358. Letter from Edward Milward, Mayor of Hastings, Sussex, reporting...
Catalogue reference: HO 42/34/158
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HO 42/34/158
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1795 May 1
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Folios 357-358. Letter from Edward Milward, Mayor of Hastings, Sussex, reporting his suspicions, regarding the recent seditious handbills and threatening letters in the Hastings area, about a Mr Leigh. He has been in lodgings for some 3 weeks, corresponds with Lord Stanhope and Mr Perry (in Newgate), draws cheques on Mr Fields of London, reads Paine and Brothers, and sends a great deal of correspondence. Annotated that Leigh is a member of the London Corresponding Society and was distributing the publications of Eaton etc.
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English
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HO 42
Home Office: Domestic Correspondence, George III
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