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Level	Piece
Finding No	DDGR/42/5/59
Extent	1 item
Title	Letter to John Grimston at Kilnwick from Stephen Thompson at Lond[on]
Date	27 Dec 1755
Description	Includes references to Bank Stock being at £122½ per cent; stock falling dramatically if the French ever resent their ships being taken daily but if they put up the losses and will relinquish their incroachment in America, then stocks will immediately rise; the dreadful calamity at Lisbon proving fatal to many both here and there; ; Grimston's friend May being a sufferer and a consequence being his being unable to return to England soon; May's Grandfather Mr Stert having left him a pretty estate near Plym[outh], which he had represented in Parliament for many years; Grimston's friend Crowle having got home safe; not having heard from Gibralter; Grimston's [Black] Lottery Tickets having been paid into Stables account by mistake and a bill on [Mr D Le Garde]
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