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GEORGE II
Document signed ("George R" at head), being an Establishment Book leaf authorising that "this Establishment of Our Forces in the Island of Minorca and Garrison of Gibraltar... do Commence and take place from the Twenty Fifth day of December One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Four", St James's, 15 May 1735

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
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GEORGE II

Document signed ("George R" at head), being an Establishment Book leaf authorising that "this Establishment of Our Forces in the Island of Minorca and Garrison of Gibraltar... do Commence and take place from the Twenty Fifth day of December One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Four" and that no further charge should be added without notification; counter-signed by the Treasury Lords George Dodington, Sir George Oxenden and William Clayton, 1 page on one side of a leaf, light spotting, folio, St James's, 15 May 1735

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ʻOUR FORCES IN THE ISLAND OF MINORCA AND GARRISON OF GIBRALTAR' – Britain had taken possession of Minorca and Gibraltar under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713; losing Minorca in 1756, thanks to the unfortunate Admiral Byng. George Bubb Dodington, whose signature heads those of the Treasury Lords, is author of the well-known diary, first published in 1784 and described by Leslie Stephen as ʻthe most curious illustration in existence of the character of the servile place-hunters of the time, with unctuous professions of virtuous sentiment which serve to heighten the effect' (DNB).

Included in the lot is an Establishment Book leaf of two pages, signed by the Lords Justices on behalf of George II during his absence in Hanover (Hartington, Holdernesse, Anson and Argyll on the recto, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Hartington, Holdernesse, Argyll and Anson on the verso), covering respectively officers' pay in both garrisons and deductions to be made out of both establishments towards the maintenance of "Superannuated and disabled Officers and Soldiers", the latter dated 28 April 1752.

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