BIB_ID
118269
Accession number
MA 9709
Creator
Sunderland, Robert Spencer, Earl of, 1640-1702.
Display Date
1684 May 12.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.6 x 14.8 cm
Summary
Confirming receipt of three letters, in one of which Bulstrode requested that a counterfeit address and a cipher be sent to him; saying that Mr. Bridgeman has sent Bulstrode a counterfeit address; writing "and as to the Cypher, I find one with you amongst ye Papers I received from Sir Lionel Jenkins, of wch I suppose you have the Counterpart, but if not, I will take care you shall have another by ye first proper Conveniency of sending it"; telling Bulstrode that the king "has thought fitt to determine the Commission for executing ye Office of Lord High Admirall of England, & to give his Royall Highness the Care of those affairs"; adding in an postscript: "Att 4 this afternoon his Maty has received an account That ye Princess of Denmark [later Queen Anne] is brought to bed of a Dead Child."
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