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Sender: Carteret, E.
Recipient: Townshend, Charles Townsend, Viscount, 1674-1738
Letters: 4
Date(s): 31 May 1722 - 17 Jul 1722
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Jacobite 1722
Note: Concerning letters passing through the Post Office from supposed Jacobites. Also present are the official transcripts sent to Viscount Townshend by the Postmaster General of 45 of these letters opened whilst in course of post, and which were suspected to be of a treasonable nature. Viscount Townshend was at this time Secretary for the Northern department, the seat of the Jacobite trouble, and in that capacity gave strict orders to the postal authorities for the detention and examination of all suspected letters, hoping thus to lay hands on the rebel leaders. The letters show remarkable evidence of the vast web of intrigue spread all over Europe at this time, in favour of the Jacobites.
Sender: Townshend, Charles Townsend, Viscount, 1674-1738
Recipient: Argyll, John Campbell, Duke of, 1680-1743
Letters: 28
Date(s): 1 Sep 1715 - 21 Feb 1716
Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Jacobite 1715. In volume lettered "Official Despatches to the Duke of Argyll"
Note: A very valuable official record (possibly the only authentic record now in existence), of what actually was transpiring at home and abroad in connection with the Jacobites, whilst the fortunes of England hung in the balance immediately following the accession of George I to the throne.