Folio 340: Thomas Lampière to E. Hay. Detailed report on Boscawen's destruction of the French...
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SP 89/51/129 | Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. Edward Hay, Sir Henry Frankland, John Whitehead and Mathew Hiccox. | Folio 340: Thomas Lampière to E. Hay. Detailed report on Boscawen's destruction of the French squadron off Lagos with clarification of the 6 p…
Folio 344: Mons. De la Clue to Comte de Merle, French ambassador at Lisbon. Account...
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SP 89/51/130 | Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. Edward Hay, Sir Henry Frankland, John Whitehead and Mathew Hiccox. | Folio 344: Mons. De la Clue to Comte de Merle, French ambassador at Lisbon. Account of his defeat by Boscawen's squadron off Lagos, with detai…
Folio 354: W. Pitt to E. Hay. The Earl of Kinnoull [Hay's brother] is being...
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SP 89/51/132 | Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. Edward Hay, Sir Henry Frankland, John Whitehead and Mathew Hiccox. | Folio 354: W. Pitt to E. Hay. The Earl of Kinnoull [Hay's brother] is being sent on a special mission to Lisbon as Ambassador Extraordinary an…
Sessions held at Truro
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QS/1/2/221-227 | Cornwall Quarter Sessions Records.Quarter Sessions Order Books.Quarter Sessions Order Book. | QS/1/2/221 Justices: Rev. W. Borlase, Sir Richard Vyvyan; Christopher Hawkins, Nicholas Kemp, John Enys, John Fortescue, John Thomas, Thomas Hawkins, Francis George, esq…
Folio 238: A. Castres to H. Fox. Carvalho's denial of a report of outrages committed...
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SP 89/50/99 | Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. Edward Hay, Abraham Castres and Mathew Hiccox. Includes despatches by Abraham Castres and Edward Hay... | Folio 238: A. Castres to H. Fox. Carvalho's denial of a report of outrages committed by a French fleet at…
Colonial Office and predecessors: Gold Coast, Original Correspondence
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CO 96 | Colonial Office and predecessors: Gold Coast, Original Correspondence. | This series contains original correspondence relating to the Gold Coast. With the exception of CO 96/1, correspondence between the English authorities at Cape Coast Castle and the Dutch authorities a…
Letter of instructions from the owners of the Chesterfield to William Earle, Captain, for a slaving voyage from Liverpool to Calabar
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D/EARLE/1/1 | THE EARLE COLLECTION.SHIPPING PAPERS. | Liverpool 22nd May 1751. Captain W. Earle. You being Commander of our snow the Chesterfield we give you the following instructions which you are to observe. The first favourable opportunity you are to sail hence for Douglas Is…
Letter to Mrs. Anne Winstanley, Liverpool from Captain William Earle: on a slaving voyage to Old Calabar
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D/EARLE/3/1 | THE EARLE COLLECTION.BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE. | He wrote previously when bound for Cork, and went windward, where he saw Captain Maddox. He arrived in Calabar three days before Captain Maddox. Captain Thomson of Marsden & Snape of Bristol, was seen in the river. The…
Head of a Queen Mother (Iyoba)
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In the Benin kingdom, the iyoba, or mother of the oba (king), occupies an important and historically significant place within Benin's political hierarchy. The title was first conferred upon Idia, the mother of king Esigie, who used her political skill and supernatural abilities t…
Will of Jonathan Lagoe, Millwright of New Cross, Surrey
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PROB 11/781/459 | Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers. Name of Register: Greenly. Quire numbers: 229-275. | Will of Jonathan Lagoe, Millwright of New Cross, Surrey.
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