Catalogue description Folios 17-20. Memorandum from Sir Sampson Wright, Bow Street [magistrate], stating that...

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Details of HO 42/16/8
Reference: HO 42/16/8
Description:

Folios 17-20. Memorandum from Sir Sampson Wright, Bow Street [magistrate], stating that Mr Montagu, mentioned in the enclosure, was a Master in Chancery. Enclosed is a memorandum to Wright from the Reverend [Francis Humphreys], curate of Hampstead [Middlesex], describing the erection by John Frith in Hampstead churchyard of a strange memorial to a brother killed in the East Indies. Appended is a note from [Edward Montagu] adding that he had inspected one of Frith's manuscripts that proved his insanity.

Date: 1790 Jan 25
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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