| Description | Letter, unsigned, retailing the latest news from London. Features of the language and abbreviations indicate a Scottish writer, and the endorsements give the name George Gordon and a reference to King's College. There is no evident connection with Robert Beale other than the letter's presence in the collection.
James D. George gives the following description and notes:
George Gordon (?) to
Dated 15 February 1704, from London
Reports receipt iof letters via Holland and relates foreign news from Vienna, Bavaria and Denmark.On the authority of the 'French Gazetier' reports that 'the privetairs have lately taken and brought in about 20 English pryzes the most from the W.I.'.
Sir George Rock's fleet sailed from Portsmouth 13th February.
The Russell Galley from Lisbon has been taken by the French -- value £30,000.
About 10 a.m. on Saturday the Duke of Marlborough, Sir Philip Meadows and Sir Da. Mitchell arrived in London from Holland.
Reports the result of a case decided on the previous Saturday.
Mr Bouchier is going to be tried on a special commission of Oyer and Terminer at East Grinstead for coming from France.
'The Lords yesterday upon the Scots plot resolved to address his Majesty to lay the remainder of the papers relating to that affair before the House and ordered Mr R[...?] to be taken into Custody, he haveing been lately admited to baill'.
Endorsed:
1. '[illegible] Mr. George Gordon 1703'.
2. 'Discharges Bursars and c (?) to the K. Coll. with a copy of the Generall Discharge'
Notes:
1. This document has no connection with Robert Beale or the rest of the papers, but may possibly provide a clue to the source from which the Beale Papers reached the Library.
2. The second endorsement has been written over the first. The document appears to have been used at the same time as a fly-laf for a bundle of accounts papers, which are no longer with it.
3. The writer uses the abbreviation 'qch' for 'which'.
[End of abstract and notes by James D. George] |