Collection of a Connoisseur: History in Manuscript, Part 2
Collection of a Connoisseur: History in Manuscript, Part 2
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April 27, 01:13 PM GMT
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description
British royal family
A collection of four documents signed, comprising:
i) George III, document signed, ordering a Court Martial for "Mutiny, Desertion and false Musters", countersigned by Lord Sydney, 2 pages, folio, papered seal, integral blank, 25 March 1789
ii) George IV, as Prince Regent, document signed, ordering the Great Seal to be attached to the instrument appointing Lionel Hervey secretary to the Ambassador to Bavaria, with a copy of the text of the instrument, countersigned by Castlereagh, altogether 5 pages, folio, papered seal, 5 January 1816
iii) Frederick, Duke of York, autograph letter in the third person, to J. Webster Wedderburn, 1 page, 4to, 28 October 1820, with envelope
iv) Queen Victoria, document signed ("App[rove]d VRI"), court martial, sentencing a soldier to five years penal servitude for insubordination and personal violence, 1 page, 8vo, with two red wax seal impressions, 2 October 1871