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Colonel Percy Kirke's dispatches from Tangier : to Secretary Jenkins and to the Lords of Treasury
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Colonel Percy Kirke's dispatches from Tangier : to Secretary Jenkins and to the Lords of Treasury, 1681-1683.
Physical Description
1 v. (506 pages) ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Written on p. [1] by Sire Thoms Phillipps: "From Strawberry Hill 1842. P." Spine label: 11791.
Bound in old vellum.
In English.
Provenance
Sold to Phillipps at the Strawberry Hill Sale 1842, vi.93; purchased by Robinson from the Phillipps Collection March 1949, for W.S. Lewis.
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day vi, lot 93 (with two volumes of the Levant Company's Letter Books, from Julius Caesar's Collection), to Phillipps, £11.11.0.
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This material is available for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Percy Kirke (1646?-1691), British army officer and governor of Tangier from 1681-1683.
Summary
Letter book containing Kirke's dispatches from Tangier while in command of command of Lord Plymouth's regiment and later as governor of Tangier (1681-1683) to Secretary Jenkins and to the Lords of the Treasury.
Publications
The last days of English Tangier: The out-letter book of Governor Percy Kirke, 1681-1683, ed. John Childs. London : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
October 20, 2010
References
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 2572
Colonel Percy Kirke's Dispatches from Tangier. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Colonel Percy Kirke's Dispatches from Tangier. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Dispatches.
Correspondence.
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