Letter sent by the Emperor of Morocco and King of Fez, to his Majesty of Great Britain, and delivered by his embassador in January, 1681 - Broadsides from the Crawford Collection

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Letter sent by the Emperor of Morocco and King of Fez, to his Majesty of Great Britain, and delivered by his embassador in January, 1681

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CRAWFORD.MB.259

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Form / genre:

Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides

Dates / events:

1682 [Date printed]
1681 [Date created]

Places:

Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Africa > Morocco (nation) [Place in text]
Europe > United Kingdom (nation) [Place in text]

Subject / content:

Letters (correspondence)
Ambassadors
Diplomacy
International relations

Person / organisation:

Ismāʻīl, Sultan of Morocco, -1727 [Author]
Jones, H., active 1681-1691 [Bookseller]

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Broadsides from the Crawford Collection

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Around 2,200 items dating from 1505 to 1897. Broadsides were originally cheap, single sheets of text, sometimes with woodcuts. Extremely varied subject matter, including proclamations, news items, scaffold speeches, satires, political and religious controversies, and Jacobite risings. Also military campaigns, such as Napoleon's threatened invasion of England in 1803. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

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Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balca