BIB_ID
281935
Accession number
MA 8833
Creator
Astle, Thomas, 1735-1803.
Display Date
undated.
Description
1 item (9 pages) ; 24.1 x 18.3 cm
Notes
American Stamp Act Collection.
This purports to be a copy of a letter from the Earl of Hardwicke to Lord Viscount Royston, written on September 4, 1763 from Wimple (perhaps Wimpole). There is a signed note from Thomas Astle on the seventh page, commenting on the events described in the letter.
With note in an unknown hand: "The following is in the handwriting of Thomas Astle, some time Keeper of the Records in the State Paper Office. See Grenville Papers, vol. ii. 93."
This purports to be a copy of a letter from the Earl of Hardwicke to Lord Viscount Royston, written on September 4, 1763 from Wimple (perhaps Wimpole). There is a signed note from Thomas Astle on the seventh page, commenting on the events described in the letter.
With note in an unknown hand: "The following is in the handwriting of Thomas Astle, some time Keeper of the Records in the State Paper Office. See Grenville Papers, vol. ii. 93."
Summary
Concerning William Pitt's interviews with the Earl of Bute and the King, and attempts to form a new government, with Pitt arguing for the inclusion of members of the Whig party and the King giving ambiguous and shifting responses to Pitt's suggestions.
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