Catalogue description PEREGRINE BERTIE to JOHN PRIDGEON, at Rome.

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Details of 8ANC8/76
Reference: 8ANC8/76
Title: PEREGRINE BERTIE to JOHN PRIDGEON, at Rome.
Description:

--Yours of September 5 has just come to my hands. We shall shortly start to meet you, drawing "towardes Lions and Marceils, being wee cannot for the Prince of Cunde arme passe by Bourdeaus. ... The news from England is all bad, for it [is] assured that the Scoch army is totally routed and the towne of Woster taken. Of prisoners they have 10 thousands. The King is fled towards Scotland with most of the English he came in [with], but his georg and Blew ribon and coatch and the richest things that he had was taken, with also his papers and coller of casses."

 

The letter is dated " August 30 " by mistake, but is endorsed correctly.
Date: 1651, September 30. Saumer
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1½ pages.

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