GEORGE IV
(1762-1830, King of Great Britain)
Fine Commission Document signed at the head 'George PR' as Regent
engraved with details filled in by hand, appointing "John Campbell (2d) Gent." as "First Lieutenant to such Company in such Division of our Corps of Royal Marines as shall from time to time be notified to you ... exercising and well disciplining both the Inferior Officers and Marines of such Company", and observing the "Orders and Directions" of "Our High Admiral or Commissioners .... or ... your Superior Officers ... in pursuance of the Trust hereby reposed in you", countersigned by Commissioners Sir Joseph Sydney YORKE (1768-1831, Admiral), Viscount MELVILLE (Robert Saunders Dundas, 1771-1851, 1st Lord of the Admiralty) and Sir John OSBORN (1772-1848, M.P., 5th Bart.), signed also by Sir John BARROW, (1764-1848, Secretary of the Admiralty), vellum, 1 side oblong folio, Court at Brighton, 1st January
Item Date:
1816
Stock No:
55096
£275
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GEORGE IV
(1762-1830, King of Great Britain)
Fine Document signed as Prince Regent,
appointing Philip Van Cortlandt "Deputy Barrack Master General ... for our Forces in Canada", countersigned by Viscount SIDMOUTH (Henry Addington, 1757-1844, Prime Minister), 1 side 12" x 16" vellum with papered seal and revenue stamp, Carlton House, 20th February
small portion cut from (?blank) corner
Item Date:
1813
Stock No:
53783
£225
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GEORGE IV
(1762-1830, King of Great Britain)
Fine signature from the head of a free pardon,
with some text on the verso in the form of a warrant for release from Newgate Gaol, where John Barkston Walker had been kept "in strict custody" since the last reign, 2 sides 2¾" x 8", no place, 14th March
lacking lower portion of the document
Item Date:
1829
Stock No:
53786
£125
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[GEORGE IV
(1762-1830, King of Great Britain)]
Portrait engraved by E. Scriven after Sir Thomas Lawrence,
showing him full face, half length, with a fine head of hair, and wearing the Garter Star, 4½" x 3½", no date, c.
trimmed close
Item Date:
1825
Stock No:
51340
£40
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[GEORGE IV
(1762-1830, King of Great Britain)]
Free pardon, lacking the King's signature at the head,
but countersigned by Sir Robert PEEL(1788-1850, Home Secretary, later Prime Minister) for a list of people, "now under sentence of Transportation in the General Penitentiary at Millbank" for felony, beginning "George Brown at Norwich in July 1824", and continuing with Dennis McCarthy, Thomas Coombe, Richard Cook, Caroline Mason, Elizabeth Trunnery, William Newberry, Benjamin Stokes, Ann Roach, and Mary Edwards, each with their place of conviction and date, in the form of a warrant for their release "in consideration of some circumstances humbly represented unto Us", royal papered seal, 2 sides 9½" x 7¾" and conjugate leaf, St. James's, 29th January
lacking top portion with signature and corresponding text on verso
Item Date:
1828
Stock No:
53787
£150
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