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Manuscripts of a French Officer named La Rochette, who appears to have been acting, at least in 1763, in the services of the Duc de Nivernais, then Ambassador at St James, in connection with Acadian and other French prisoners.
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Identifier: MS.3803
Scope and Contents
In a note on folio i the officer is called Colonel de la Rochette; on folio 42 he describes himself as being addressed as General.The manuscripts consist of notes and drafts (some of these latter in several versions), chiefly on the following subjects. Some or all may have been intended for the Duc de Nivernais.(i) The campaigns of Agricola and Roman antiquities in Scotland, with some notes on early Britain in general. (Folios 1-42, 45-47, 58, 63.)(ii) A...
Dates:
Mid 18th century.