BIB_ID
132470
Accession number
MA 22829
Creator
Montgomerie, Archibald, 1726-1796.
Display Date
London, England, 1788 October 6.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 19.6 x 16.2 cm
Notes
Removed from the American Stamp Act Collection.
With the autograph signed reply of the Marquess of Buckingham on pages 3 and 4 and dated October 15, 1788, explaining "...that neither by my Commission nor by my Instructions nor by Practice do I understand the Colonel's Consent requisite upon Change or Promotion in the Regiments in this Establishment;" adding that due to the immediacy of needing to send a Field Officer with a Battalion of the 60th it was "...impossible to wait for my Official Recommendation to the Majority of the 51st. I trust that your L'p will see by this Statement how little it could be my Intention to 'preclude you from the common and beaten Road of another Colonel' and I wish you likewise to be persuaded of my Wish to shew you every Mark of the personal Regard with which / I have the Honor to be / thy Lord / Your L'p's Most Faithful / & Ob't Serv't / N.B."
With the autograph signed reply of the Marquess of Buckingham on pages 3 and 4 and dated October 15, 1788, explaining "...that neither by my Commission nor by my Instructions nor by Practice do I understand the Colonel's Consent requisite upon Change or Promotion in the Regiments in this Establishment;" adding that due to the immediacy of needing to send a Field Officer with a Battalion of the 60th it was "...impossible to wait for my Official Recommendation to the Majority of the 51st. I trust that your L'p will see by this Statement how little it could be my Intention to 'preclude you from the common and beaten Road of another Colonel' and I wish you likewise to be persuaded of my Wish to shew you every Mark of the personal Regard with which / I have the Honor to be / thy Lord / Your L'p's Most Faithful / & Ob't Serv't / N.B."
Summary
Expressing his displeasure at hearing from Sir George Yonge "...of an Exchange taking place in the 51st Regiment of which I have the Honour of being Colonel;" asking to understand the "...reason for precluding me from the common and beaten road of another Colonel;" apologizing, in a postscript, "..for not making use of my own hand, as I have the Rheumatism in my right arm."
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