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Lot 110

SCOTLAND – THE 'FORTY-FIVE'

10 November 2009, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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SCOTLAND – THE 'FORTY-FIVE'

Account book kept by a member of the Duke of Cumberland's staff in the Highlands of Scotland during the Culloden Campaign of 1745-6, recording the Duke's income and outgoings, mostly on the civil list and establishment, with audit fees, kept on a weekly basis between December 1745 and December 1746, upper cover inscribed "Cash Remains/ From Xmas 1745", some 100 pages, contemporary vellum boards, gilt ruled panels with accord device at corners, gilt edges, water-staining to lower cover (not affecting the interior), usual dust-staining and signs of use but overall in attractive condition, 4to, 1745-1746

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This handsome volume was clearly kept by or for a senior member of 'Butcher' Cumberland's staff: for example on the first page, he records "My Salary" as being £250 (the same as that received by the Prince's Comptroller General), while "My Clerks" receive £55. He also received £17-7-9¾ for "my Coynage fees" and £15-1-7¼ for the same "on Spirits". One candidate could be Sir Everard Fawkener, the friend of Voltaire, who was at this time serving as Cumberland's secretary. The volume however is not in his handwriting. But, being substantially in the same contemporary hand throughout and written without obvious breaks, it could well be a fair copy taken from the original, such as would have been made for office or audit use. On the inner upper cover a note is entered for 12 sheets of medium quarto paper, above the name of Mrs Piggott.

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