Record

Document Reference	Pw A 2126/1-9
Title	Copy letter in French to 'Mr Howel' [Dr John Hutton]; 12 Jan. 1688
Date	12 January 1688
Extent	18 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Uses code names; comments at length on attitudes of Anglicans, dissenters and Catholics; reviews support for both the repeal of the penal laws and the Test Acts; comments on the Fagel-Stewart correspondence, the printing and circulation of 'Fagel's letter' and the issue of its authenticity; warns of threats against Burnet and urges him to take precautions. The name is identified from a cypher; see Pw A 2091 The original of this letter is not present. Copy made in 1733 and forming part of a bundle of papers sent from Holland to England and referred to in the papers of the 3rd Duke of Portland (Pw F 1261).
Language	French
Term	religious affairs, England
	parliamentary business, acts, Test Acts 1673 and 1678
	ciphers, use of
	intelligence, reports
	revolutions, Glorious Revolution 1688, preparations

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA31477	Fagel; Gaspard (1629-1688); -; Grand Pensionary of Holland	1629-1688
NA31693	Stewart; James (fl 1687-1688); -; recipient of letter from Gaspard Fagel	fl 1687-1688
NA18601	Burnet; Gilbert (1643-1715); Bishop of Salisbury; attended Lord Russell on the scaffold; Bishop of Salisbury 1689-1715	1643-1715
NA29773	Hutton; John (-1712); Dr; 1st physician to Queen Anne; M.P.	-1712