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Folio 42: Lord Tyrawley to Duke of Newcastle. Vice-Consul at Lagos has urgently requested a...

SP 89/35/23 | Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. Burnett, Charles Compton, Baron Tyrawly and Arthur Stert. | Folio 42: Lord Tyrawley to Duke of Newcastle. Vice-Consul at Lagos has urgently requested a warship should be detached there to receive some highly confidential intelligence which he cannot trust to a letter. Captain Byng R.N. has readily consented to do this; butTyrawly adds that R.N. officers take orders from the Admiralty alone and he cannot order them to do anything, however urgent, but only request them. He asks for further clarification and instructions on this …

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Source	UK National Archives
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	The National Archives, Kew
Date	1728 June
Type	catalogue level 7, closure O
Details	search Lagos
Found at	https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6843814
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Record ID	`uk-tna-discovery:C6843814`

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Folio 42: Lord Tyrawley to Duke of Newcastle. Vice-Consul at Lagos has urgently requested a.... UK National Archives, 1728. Vero Archive, record uk-tna-discovery:C6843814.