Letter

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 PLP 28/11/21
  • Former Reference
      GB 135 PLP 28/11/21
  • Dates of Creation
      19 Aug 1801
  • Physical Description
      1 item

Scope and Content

Copy letter from Wakefield, Yorkshire, re a meeting of 1,800 rebels on Grange Moor, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He expresses his fears of an uprising in support of a French invasion. Coke offers his services to the government during his forthcoming visit to Ireland.

In a postscript Coke suggests that corn granaries be erected throughout the country as a means of winning favour with the people.

[Public Record Office reference HO/42/62/fo. 408.]