- GLC#
- GLC01450.446.11-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- November 29, 1716
- Author/Creator
- Bourke, Edward, fl. 1700-1730
- Title
- to William Cadogan
- Place Written
- Cambray, France
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 22.6 cm, Width: 17.4 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- The Thirteen Colonies
Discusses previous correspondence between Bourke and Cadogan regarding Bourke's discovery of a Jacobite plot in Cambray, France (refer to previous letters in the GLC01450.446 collection). Discusses a letter (not included) from Mr. Sheldon (possibly Dominick Sheldon), that Bourke may be transmitting to Cadogan, British ambassador at the Hague. Requests a sum of money from Cadogan, in exchange for information he has provided regarding Jacobites in Cambray. Instructs Cadogan to burn their previous correspondence. Addressed to John Williams, a pseudonym Cadogan used in correspondence with Bourke. Docket states November 29; possibly written November 21.
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