BIB_ID
377675
Accession number
MA 1294.6
Creator
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762.
Display Date
1755 July 17.
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 30.8 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
This order is addressed to William Adair as Paymaster and Agent for the Marine Forces.
With additional signatures of the Honourable Thomas Villiers and William, Viscount Duncannon.
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
This order is addressed to William Adair as Paymaster and Agent for the Marine Forces.
With additional signatures of the Honourable Thomas Villiers and William, Viscount Duncannon.
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
Summary
Requesting payment of salaries compensation for the "Secretary and the Clerks employed under him" as a result of "5700 Marines have been established by his Majesty from the 25th of March last under our immediate and entire Command;" providing specific payment instructions on the verso, with Anson's signature, for the Secretary and his clerks, the Storekeepers of His Majesty's Yards at Portsmouth, Plymouth and Chatham and the Clerks of the Cheque of His Majesty's Yard at Portsmouth, Plymouth and Chatham;
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