| Description | Original bundle
Includes:
1) Letter from William Strickland, Whitehall to John Cundall at Rotherham regarding the over-supply of shoes, 1732
2) Petition to Hon Richard Lockwood MP for city of Worcester regarding the overcrowding of the city due to the soldiers of the regiment of foot, signed by several petitioners, 1730s
3) Abstract of the several estimates for numbers in the army in Great Britain, Plantations, Minorca & Gibraltar, Chelsea Hospital, on half pay, 1731
4) Copy letter from Major Jasper Ashworth regarding the attack and defeat at Port Antonio, 7 Dec 1731
5) Note regarding the discharge of Ardin [Bonell] from the first Regiment of Guards, signed by Alexander [Hughs] 8 Jul 1732
6) Letter from William Nugent regarding a case he reluctantly sets forth, 8 Mar 1733
7) Fragment of a letter and note regarding Sarah Mathews, widow of Brigadier William Mathews and pension arrears from the reign of Queen Anne, nd. [1730s]
8) Petition to the king from Lieutenant General Whetham, nd. [1730s]
9) Two Letters from Captain Tobie de Rocayrol in French, 1734
11) Letter from Selwyn regarding Captain Hewst exchanging his half pay for a company at Gilbraltar, 13 Jun 1734
12) Monthly returns of the Honourable Colonel Montagu's Regiment of Foot, 1 Oct 1734
13) A statement of the establishment and other charges of government for one year and nine months together with payments made and arrears remaining, Mar 1719
14) Copy of the will of the late Sir William Strickland baronet, 14 June 1733
15) Blue wrapper, ‘W S's letters 1827 to 1830’. |