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Royal documents

Reference code
MSS/0994
Title
Royal documents
Date
12 March 1690/1- 15 Nov 1817
Level of description
item
Extent and format
3 items.
Vellum.
Scope and content
Miscellaneous royal documents:-

(1) William and Mary: exemplification from Orlando Gee, Principal Registrar of the Court of Admiralty, of a royal commission, 12 March 1690/1, for the restitution to two merchants of Copenhagen of property seized at sea from the 'Fortune'; 16 March 1690/1. With engraved portraits of William and Mary, and border;-

(2) George III: appointment of John Robert Lyons as ensign in the 69th (or South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot; 24 June 1783. Sign manual. Papered seal;-

(3) George III: order to Commissioners in Bankruptcy to stay proceedings against Joseph and Samuel Smith of Cheapside and Coventry, mercers and drapers; 15 Nov. 1817. Partly printed. Half Great Seal (cf. Sir H. C. Maxwell-Lyte, The Great Seal (1926), 304-9).
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/994