Bourke, Edward, fl. 1700-1730 to William Cadogan
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.446.07 Author/Creator: Bourke, Edward, fl. 1700-1730 Place Written: Cambray, France Type: Autograph letter signed Date: November 15, 1716 Pagination: 3 p. : address ; 22.6 cm x 17.3 cm. Order a Copy
Written to John Williams, a pseudonym Cadogan used in his correspondence with Bourke. Bourke mentions previous correspondence to and from Cadogan, which discussed Bourke's discovery of a Jacobite plot. Bourke relates that his brother Ulick Bourke was instructed to deliver a letter from Lord Abingdon (Montagu Venables-Bertie, 2nd Earl of Abingdon) to Monsieur Sheldon (possibly Dominick Sheldon). In the letter, Abingdon begs Sheldon "to send him with the rest of the pretenders friends some arms and officers into England and that they will engage to detrone the usurper as they call him and that he himself engages to be in a very little time to be intirely master of oxfordshire and that the rest of the pretenders friends will rise in northumberland, cumberland, westmorland, Cornwal, and Lancashire, the rest he will nott name untill his next letter to him wich will pass by my hands... " Bourke demands a pension in return for the information he provides, and promises to alert Cadogan of further intelligence related to the Jacobite plot.
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