Untitled letter from the Mayor of Bristol, dated 24 October 1698

Author: John Blackwell (Mayor of Bristol)

Source: MINT 15/17/106, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Bristoll 24 October 1698

Sir

^[1]

Bate this day sent me a Letter promising to make a further Discovery whereupon wee sent for him and have enclosed sent you a Copy of his Examination he seems mightily desirous of meriting his life wherefore I have now sent another Copy thereof to m^r John Gray who being in the countrey where the persons in that Examination named doe live can best find them out Bates turns very much disatisfyed that no intelligence is yet had of Field and says he must needs be about Oxford and that if due search be made he must be taken I wish this Villany be effectually prosecuted and supprest and am

Sir

you humble Servant

John Blackwell Mayor

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Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL - newtonproject@history.ox.ac.uk

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