Record

Document Reference	Ne C 252/1
Title	Letter from Michael Lee Dicker, Bath, England, to Henry Pelham; 26 Sep. 1745
Date	26 September 1745
Extent	2 ff
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Expresses his fears of increasing support for the Pretender if the government troops continue to be defeated; urges that foreign troops, perhaps Danes, be brought over 'Cost what they will: for to do things by halves at this juncture when all is at stake is Certain Ruin; suggests that the Lord Lieutenants should be raising associations in the areas to preserve peace; urges that the Cornish tin mines should be secured for the King.
Term	armies, mercenaries, Danish
	tin, Cornish mines
	Jacobites, England 1745
	military campaigns, Great Britain 1745-46

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA18873	Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir Stuart (1720-1788); Prince; ('the Young Pretender', or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'; son of titular James III)	1720-1788
NA11309	George II (1683-1760); King of Great Britain and Ireland	1683-1760
NA18864	Dicker; Michael Lee (1693-1752); Dr; Physician to the Exeter Hospital, appointed 1741	1693-1752
NA967	Pelham; Henry (1696-1754); Mr; Prime Minister 1743-1754 brother of T. Pelham-Holles 1st Duke of Newcastle under Lyne	1696-1754