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** THE 7 YEARS WAR - LETTER TO CAPTAIN DEQUEUX IN PLYMOUTH CAPTURED DURING PRE-WAR 'PEACE'; 6 Jan. 1756 EL from Bordeaux to Le Chevalier Dequeux, Captain of the French Merchant Ship La Fidele, being held in Plymouth after his ship had been taken by the English [see next lot]. With normal postal rate from France; "10" changed to "In [all] 1N2" (10d ex France + 4d London to Plymouth) and having a fine "IA/14" London Foreign Branch transit Bishop Mark on the flap. The writer asks for news of his son, the ship's third cooper (the ship carried a cargo of wine). Good example of pre-War French vessels being impounded and their crews taken prisoner. [See MFPWE, p. 44.] Cross Reference: FRANCE, MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, DEVON, NAVAL MAIL
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