Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies: August, 1714 December, 1715 Preserved in the Public Record Office (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies: August, 1714 December, 1715 Preserved in the Public Record Office Immediately upon hearing of the death of Queen Anne, General Nicholson hastened home, without further regard to the large roving commission of supervision and enquiry upon which he had been sent by Bolingbroke (122 11 312, 601, 645 Both Colonel Hunter and Col. Vetch, who suffered from him, represent this Governor of Governors as a Jacobite schemer, acting and talking like a ...
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Excerpt from Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies: August, 1714 December, 1715 Preserved in the Public Record Office Immediately upon hearing of the death of Queen Anne, General Nicholson hastened home, without further regard to the large roving commission of supervision and enquiry upon which he had been sent by Bolingbroke (122 11 312, 601, 645 Both Colonel Hunter and Col. Vetch, who suffered from him, represent this Governor of Governors as a Jacobite schemer, acting and talking like a madman (122 Governor Dudley, too, had reason to resent the imperious tone of his letters. Hunter says he intrigued with the Jacobite clergy against him, and expected to succeed to his Government (312, 645 ii., Vetch exhibits his actions with regard to Nova Scotia in a very curious light. Making no concealment of his intention to serve the cause of the Pretender and the French, he informed Vetch, whom he had'superseded, that his greatest crime in the eyes of the Tory Government was his endeavour to preserve the garrison of Annapolis Royal. He ought, he said, to have understood that the silence of Ministers in answer to his appeals for its support meant that they intended to abandon it 122 Nicholson's own treatment of the garrison and of the French inhabitants of Nova Scotia was interpreted as being designed to carry out that policy (601, 602, 659 cf. Journal of Board of Trade, Jan. 4. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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