Here are miscellaneous documents
illustrating how letters of introduction and safe conduct
developed into the modern passport.
Choose from the following passports dated:
1708
Passport
of Mr Raite, a Scotsman travelling from France
to Scotland, from Louis XIV, King of France. Original
passport in the National Archives of Scotland. (reference
: GD68/2/149)
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1742 Passport
granted by Cardinal Valenti, Secretary of State
to Pope Benedict XIV to Mr (William?) Rait, a Scotsman
travelling from Rome to Venice. Original passport in
the National Archives of Scotland. (reference : GD68/1/308)
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1827 Passport
of Captain James Hay of Bolton, R.N. Original
passport in the National Archives of Scotland. (reference
: GD73/2/15)
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1854 Passport
of James George Hay. Original passport in the
National Archives of Scotland (reference : GD73/2/21).
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To find out more about Passports, have a look at the
relevant entry in the SCAN Knowledge
Base
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