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Letter from James Douglas, France?, to the Duc de Melfe?, year unknown July 28 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
106257
Accession number
MA 22772
Creator
Douglas, James, Lord, 1617-1645.
Display Date
France?, year unknown July 28.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 21.6 x 15.7 cm
Notes
No year of writing is given on the letter; earlier catalog records have suggested that it might have been written in 1645.
Douglas gives the place of writing as "Camp de Mardek." The location of this camp has not been identified, though Douglas served most of his career in France and Belgium.
Address panel with seals and floss: "Monsigneur du duke / d [name scratched out] general / des arme de la Majestie / catholique au pais bas." The Duc de Melfe is identified as the addressee in a later note.
Docketed.
Summary
Concerning a Scottish woman who had to leave her country "a caus de la religion catolique" and is requesting permission to travel to where her husband is staying.