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Papers of John Baker Holroyd, Baron Sheffield, 1554-1830

Title: Papers of John Baker Holroyd, Baron Sheffield 1554-1830

ArchivalResource: 8 volumes, 2 bundles, 8 double sheets, 3 single sheets

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb96-ms011,ms124,ms126,ms132,ms139,ms423,ms869,ms942,ms984,al55,al60.al115,al116,al120,al121,al144,al145,al227,al268,al277,al346 View

University of Wales, Lampeter: Post-medieval Manuscripts, 1652-[ca. 1915]

Title: University of Wales, Lampeter: Post-medieval Manuscripts 1652-[ca. 1915]

ArchivalResource: 0.06 cubic metres

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Redesdale, John Mitford, Baron, 1748-1830. Letter to William Wickham, 22 July 1798.

Title: Letter to William Wickham, 22 July 1798.

Confidential letter to Wickham, then under-secretary of state, regarding the interpretation and implementation of the 1747 "Act for the King's most gracious, general and free pardon" (20 Geo.II, c. 52).

ArchivalResource: 2 folded sheets (6 p.) ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/236049720 View

Aust, George, 1740-1829. George Aust papers concerning the Secret Service, 1794-1800.

Title: George Aust papers concerning the Secret Service, 1794-1800.

Manuscripts connected with the British Secret Service during George Aust's tenure as Under Secretary of State. In addition to a detailed cryptographic key, documents include receipts for large sums given by Aust to Messrs. Thomas Coutts on Lord Grenville's account; lists of recipients of Secret Service funds, including the duc de Harcourt and William Wickham; and a copy of a letter and an affadavit addressed to the Office for Auditing the Public Account.

ArchivalResource: 0.21 linear feet (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702198641 View

Farquhar, Robert Townsend, Sir, 1776-1830. Robert Townsend Farquhar letters to Robert Dundas, 1810 May-1811 May.

Title: Robert Townsend Farquhar letters to Robert Dundas, 1810 May-1811 May.

Letters and letters copy from Robert Townsend Farquhar to his patron on the East India Company's Board of Control, Robert Dundas, concerning the British expedition against Mauritius and Réunion and Farquhar's appointment as Governor. Subjects include the initial phase of the naval campaign against the French islands; their capitulation; and Farquhar's preliminary establishment of British rule. Farquhar frequently alludes to the importance of Dundas's patronage in his advancement, and when he is abruptly displaced as governor of Mauritius he sends Dundas several copies of his reply to the change in orders. Other items include a 1796 memorandum urging the British government to conquer the two islands; a 1798 letter by the emigre comte de Fouchecour claiming to have a secret plan to persuade the islanders to support the British; and a discouraging letter from Spencer Perceval to Dundas about a suggestion that the British take the Portuguese settlements in East Africa.

ArchivalResource: 1.13 linear feet (2 boxes) + 1 broadside.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702178967 View