Catalogue description PEREGRINE BERTIE to his brother, the EARL OF LINDSEY, at Grimsthorpe.

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Reference: 8ANC9/9
Title: PEREGRINE BERTIE to his brother, the EARL OF LINDSEY, at Grimsthorpe.
Description:

--My wife, and I are extremely sorry to hear of my Lady Lindsey's illness. I hope we shall soon hear that she is better.

 

"As to our affaires in Germany, they seeme to be in a verry ill condition, its believed that they will hardly gitt there army togeither, and wee have some feares upon us for Francford, and the consternation they are in to let slippe such a place as Hedleberg out of there lands, and wee expect but little in Flanders, and are afraid that the Dutch are making a peace and that tow many of the states have beene in Allwin's businesse. Our fleete is sailed and the Touloune fleete is not yet arrived at Brest."

 

Postscript.--"The Turkes have horsed 12,000 janisaryes and turned them into dragoons as the Frenche officers have desired."
Date: 1693, May 25
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 page.

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