Letter 1310

Henry Compton, Bishop of London to Hans Sloane – May 1, 1713


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Date: May 1, 1713
Author: Henry Compton, Bishop of London
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 148



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Compton informs Sloane that ‘things of this nature must be carryed on the right way’. He must contact the Secretary of War Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet. Thomas Compton (1631/2-1713) was the Bishop of London and a fierce anti-Catholic (Andrew M. Coleby, Compton, Henry (1631/21713), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6032, accessed 16 June 2011]).




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