Day 2- Europe & Overseas, Austrian Levant

1702 (Nov 3): Entire letter, original written on Oct 7th, mailed from Madeira to London during War of the Grand Alliance, with manuscript "Forwarded by 13 Dec 1702, Saml & Jos. Clarke" (thus probably at Amsterdam) with London Bishop Mark on reverse "DE/16" in black and charged 3 shillings to pay. An interesting letter: "We have no notice how matter stand between us and Portugal nor whether our Grand Fleete gone. Our hopes are that these people will be neutral..". Portugal joined the Alliance with the League of Augsburg, Denmark and the Netherlands against France & Spain.
Catalogue 244: Europe & Overseas