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Autograph Letter Signed "Barrymore", addressed "Dear Madam", discussing treatments by different doctors, the settlement of a "troublesome affair" in Ireland and family news, 3pp., 4to, old repairs at folds and margins; Campbell, John, 2nd Duke of Argyll, 1st Duke of Greenwich (1680-1743) [Writer to the Signet and Commander in Chief, Scotland, during the Jacobite Uprising]: “Ronald, I wonder you should make any difficulty as to my being paid my thousand pounds in November…”, 4th October 1704; [Idem] "Ronald... you tell me you desire to send me the thousand pound so soon as you can... I cant imagine whow (how) you can think I live here and I dair assure you if I havena that thousand pound with the answer of this letter and am not for the future pay'd ... for by God Allmighty I will not starve for the saik of my Family or any thing on earth", 2pp., integral address panel, London, ye 11th Nov. 1704, address panel with seal remains torn at folds not affecting text Note: One of the reasons for the failure of the 1745 rebellion was the fact that the promised French support did not arrive. In February 1744 Charles left Dunkirk with thousands of fighting men and ships provided by Louis XV. Before the Royal Navy had to engage with them a storm got up. French boats were sunk and men were lost. The surviving ships including Charles's had to limp back to France. Involved in the failure was James Barry fourth Earl of Barrymore, who served as general in the War of the Spanish Succession. Late in life he took the impulsive decision to support Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie", and became a figure of national importance when he was discovered as the English rebel who would meet the invading French army in 1744. His advanced age saved him from prosecution and probable execution.