Letter 1854

John Hough to Hans Sloane – July 28, 1712


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Date: July 28, 1712
Author: John Hough
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 62-63



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Hough thanks Sloane for treating Mrs Hough’s nephew. John Hough was the President of Magdalen College, Oxford and the Bishop of Worcester. He published several anti-Catholic pamphlets during his career (Julian Lock, Hough, John (16511743), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13862, accessed 14 June 2011]).




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