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Lot 61

GEORGE II
Document signed twice ("George R" at head on recto and verso), being an Establishment Book leaf for "The Charge of the Garrison of Minorca", [1745-6]

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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GEORGE II

Document signed twice ("George R" at head on recto and verso), being an Establishment Book leaf for "The Charge of the Garrison of Minorca", covering Fort St Anne and Fort St Philip, and overleaf the "Establishment of the Forces and Garrisons in the Island of Minorca" comprising "A Regiment of Foot" listed by "Field and Staff Officers", "One Company" and "One Company of Grenadiers" (totalling £76,087-5s-10d for the year); each page counter-signed by the Treasury Lords, Charles Sackville (Earl of Middlesex), Henry Fox and George Lyttelton, 2 pages on one leaf, light dust-staining, folio, [1745-6]

Footnotes

ʻTHE GARRISON OF MINORCA': this leaf dates from the period of Pelham's first ministry of 25 December 1744 to 24 June 1746, during which Middlesex, Fox and Lyttelton served as Commissioners of the Treasury.

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