Letter 2682

David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore to Hans Sloane – February 26, 1722


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Date: February 26, 1722
Author: David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 274



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Arrangement for Sloane to see the Dean of Lincoln, Dr Robert Cannon who was near death. David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore (bap. 1657, d. 1730) was an army officer and Jacobite (T. F. Henderson, ‘Colyear, David, first earl of Portmore (bap. 1657, d. 1730)’, rev. Jonathan Spain, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6015, accessed 23 July 2014]).




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