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William Duncombe 1689–1692

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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The editor has been unable to discover more about this envoy than that in 1693, after his return to England, he was appointed one of the Lords Justices in Ireland and that at his death in April 1704 he held the office of comptroller-general of army accounts. There is suggestion in the dispatches that he was kin to the wealthy banker, Charles Duncombe, Lord Mayor of London in 1708, whose nephew was raised to the peerage as Lord Feversham, and it is probable that he was the member for Bedfordshire in the parliaments of 1688 and 1695.

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British Diplomatic Instructions, Sweden, 1689–1727
Information
Camden Third Series , Volume 32 , July 1922 , pp. 1 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1922

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References

page 4 note 1 Robert Molesworth, in 1719 Viscount Molesworth; author of the malicious Account of Denmark as it was in the year 1692.Google Scholar

page 8 note 1 Baron Hans Barikman Leyonberg, the Swedish envoy extraordinary to William III.

page 9 note 1 According to Carlson (v. 409) this was Col. Bidal, baron von Hatzfeldt, presumably the French marshal Claude-Françis Bidal, marquis d'Asfeld, of later days. A brother of his, however, the Abbé Bidal, was French minister at Hamburg, 1690 to 1703, and was sent to negotiate with Charles XII hi 1701.

page 9 note 2 Count Bengt Gabrielsson Oxentierna, president of the chancery.

page 10 note 1 Charles, Viscount Dursley, envoy extraordinary at the Hague, afterwards. 2nd Earl of Berkeley.

page 11 note 1 Count Gabriel Turesson Oxentierna, Swedish envoy at the Hague.

page 13 note 1 Godard Adriaan van Rheede, Baron van Amerongen, Heer van Ginkel, the Dutch envoy at Copenhagen mentioned. He died in October of this year. He was the father of Gobert van Ginkel, created by William III Earl of Athlone.