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Byron's Norfolk copyholds. See 1810-03-03

See CaByron to Byron 1808-05-23. The site of Byron's coal holdings, which he tried to sell. "Byron inherited land here with his title in 1798, but the leasehold -- and with it the valuable right to mine coal -- had been sold (illegally) by…

The second country visited during the Mediterranedan Tour. "Byron and Hobhouse travelled across Spain in the summer of 1809. ... The version of this journey in CHP I is concerned with
the effects of the Napoleonic annexation of Spain in 1808 ...."…

Mentioned by Byron to Hanson 1809-07-13 and BLJ I-214n. Hobhouse to Byron 1810-12-10a, Byron to JnMurray 1812-10-23. Politician

A friend of Hanson's, he loaned money to Byron.

International banker with agents in Malta and Constantinople: BLJ 1-205n.

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-05-03. Identified by Tim Webb.
See The Byron Journal, Volume 38, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 49-58.

See 1809-07-16 to FrHodgson: "... the village of Cintra in Estremadura is the most beautiful, perhaps, in the world. * * *..."

"...and I goes into society (with my pocket-pistols), and I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhoea and bites from the musquitoes." Byron to Hodgson 1809-07-16
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1809-07-16 to FrHodgson: "To-morrow we start to ride post near 400 miles as far as Gibraltar, where we embark for Melita and Byzantium. A letter to Malta will find me, or to be forwarded, if I am absent."