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Gravell Watermark Archive
WORD.011.1 |
 WORD.011.1 REPOSITORY INFORMATION: Folger Shakespeare Library201 East Capitol Street, SE Washington, D. C., United States., DC 20003 phone: (202) 544 4600 |
DATE: 1674 (August 1674) WATERMARK INFORMATION: PRIMARY: NamesWords (IPH KEY: Y) SECONDARY: "I CONARD" PROCESS: DYLUX PAPER INFORMATION: MANUFACTURE: Laid CHAINS: 25-25-26-25-26-24 ARTIFACT INFORMATION: ARTIFACT: Newdigate newsletter YEAR OF USE: 1674 London, England REPOSITORY: Folger Shakespeare Library SHELFMARK: L.c. 68 DATABASE INFORMATION: RECORD ADDED: 15 October 1999 NO. 307 GENERAL COMMENTS: See also SLD.167.1/FOL 1399  .Inventory of goods and chattels. One of 3954 newsletters sent to Sir Newdigate of Arbury, Warwickshire from Whitehall, London. Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701) originated these letters for intelligence reasons. Williamson's newsletters differed from the commercial newsletters of a later date, such as O'Dyers. In order to obtain information of a secret nature, which in turn was dispensed to certain civil military officers, persons of power and authority in the counties, Customs officers, Naval Storekeepers, Postmasters, Governors of garrisons, Commanders of Fleets, Privy Councilors and officeholders in London, certain persons were paid for their information.Only a portion of the watermark survives. |