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Pw2Hy - Papers of the Harley Family, 1602-1738, in the Portland (Welbeck) Collection
Document Reference
Pw2 Hy 343
Title
Letter from Thomas Parsons; 1689
Date
1689
Extent
1 f
Level
Item/file
Content Description
Discusses rumours of a 'great plot' [Rye House Plot] against the government as discovered by Lord Dellamore [later 1st Earl of Warrington]; comments that it is not thought to have been a 'Papist'; refers to rumours that the French are intending to 'power a great army into England'; this document has an anti-Catholic tone.
Parts of text missing due to damage to document.
Term
politics, rumours
crimes, high treason
conspiracies and plots, Rye House Plot 1682
religious affairs, anti-Catholicism
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Code
PersonName
Dates of existence
NA29066
Booth; Henry (1652-1694); 1st Earl of Warrington; creat. 1690; succ. 2nd Baron Delamer of Dunham 1684
1652-1694
NA29067
Parsons; Thomas (fl 1689)
fl 1689
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