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OATES, Titus (1648-1705). Autograph letter signed to the Duke of Bolton, n.p. [London], 16 June, 1694, 2 pages, folio, integral address leaf, seal, endorsed by the recipient (neatly repaired in folds, slightly darkened at edges).
A report conveying to the Duke (at Hackwood in Hampshire), the latest news of events on the continent, including first the failure of the Turkish army who 'made an attaque upon Tettall in Hungary and [gave] it three assaults but came of with dishonour and were forced to quit their interprise and retyre to Belgrade'; continuing with reports from William III's campaign in Flanders and of the French army on the Rhine, 'I believe your Grace will heare suddenly of action in Flanders, the King is very strongly intrenched in case the Ffrench shold attaque him they daily take spies in the campe and they have [...] all the Horse that have deserted the Ffr[ench] Army and they report that the Ffr[ench] Horse are but in a bad condition and severall Ffrench horses have been taken that were at grass not worth 4 days'. News has arrived of the disastrous expedition to Brest 'and wee have done nothing for Generall Talmash [i.e. Thomas Tollemache] who landed with about 400 men but found the descent to bee altogether impractable for there was fifteen or twenty thousand men well incamped and intrenched ready to have rec[eive]d us if our forces had landed and therefore he thought it convenient to ship of his men in doing of which hee had killed and wounded about 100 men and hee himselfe was wounded in the thigh but not mortally and hee is come to Plymouth'. The letter concludes with further rumours and reports.
Titus Oates, the notorious fabricator of the Popish Plot (when he claimed knowledge of a conspiracy to assassinate Charles II and install a Jesuit administration) was imprisoned and tried for perjury but released in 1689, when his pension was restored by William of Orange. The campaign to which the present letter mainly refers was undertaken by William in the renewal of the war against Louis XIV in the Low Countries, concluded three years later by the Treaty of Ryswijk. General Thomas Tollemache died of his wounds on returning to Plymouth.
Oates's correspondent, Charles Paulet, 6th Marquis of Winchester, was created 1st Duke of Bolton in 1689 by William III for his zeal in promoting his interests.
A report conveying to the Duke (at Hackwood in Hampshire), the latest news of events on the continent, including first the failure of the Turkish army who 'made an attaque upon Tettall in Hungary and [gave] it three assaults but came of with dishonour and were forced to quit their interprise and retyre to Belgrade'; continuing with reports from William III's campaign in Flanders and of the French army on the Rhine, 'I believe your Grace will heare suddenly of action in Flanders, the King is very strongly intrenched in case the Ffrench shold attaque him they daily take spies in the campe and they have [...] all the Horse that have deserted the Ffr[ench] Army and they report that the Ffr[ench] Horse are but in a bad condition and severall Ffrench horses have been taken that were at grass not worth 4 days'. News has arrived of the disastrous expedition to Brest 'and wee have done nothing for Generall Talmash [i.e. Thomas Tollemache] who landed with about 400 men but found the descent to bee altogether impractable for there was fifteen or twenty thousand men well incamped and intrenched ready to have rec[eive]d us if our forces had landed and therefore he thought it convenient to ship of his men in doing of which hee had killed and wounded about 100 men and hee himselfe was wounded in the thigh but not mortally and hee is come to Plymouth'. The letter concludes with further rumours and reports.
Titus Oates, the notorious fabricator of the Popish Plot (when he claimed knowledge of a conspiracy to assassinate Charles II and install a Jesuit administration) was imprisoned and tried for perjury but released in 1689, when his pension was restored by William of Orange. The campaign to which the present letter mainly refers was undertaken by William in the renewal of the war against Louis XIV in the Low Countries, concluded three years later by the Treaty of Ryswijk. General Thomas Tollemache died of his wounds on returning to Plymouth.
Oates's correspondent, Charles Paulet, 6th Marquis of Winchester, was created 1st Duke of Bolton in 1689 by William III for his zeal in promoting his interests.
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