Letters from Henry Boyle to Charles, Viscount Townshend 1709-10

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Letters from Henry Boyle to Charles, Viscount Townshend 1709-10

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Bodleian Library, Oxford

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Boyle Henry d 1725 1st Baron Carleton politician

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Townshend, Charles Townshend, Viscount, 1674-1738

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Charles Viscount Townshend (1674-1738) was Secretary for the Northern department, the seat of the Jacobite trouble. James 1st Earl Stanhope (1673-1721) was a statesman who also took a leading part in securing the Hanoverian succession. John Erskine, 6th or 11th Earl of Mar (1675-1732) was a Jacobite leader. John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1680-1743) was his military opponent loyal to the English crown. For fuller details of the lives and achievements of all these men see the Dictionary of Nat...