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CHARLES II
Warrant signed ("Charles R") at head, Whitehall, 13 June 1667

15 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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CHARLES II

Warrant signed ("Charles R") at head, appointing Horatio, Lord Townshend, as Colonel of a Regiment of Foot consisting of ten companies each of 100 men, countersigned by "Arlington", papered seal impressed with the King's coat of arms, on vellum, creased at folds, row of pin holes to vertical edges, some discolouration on verso where folded and exposed but otherwise in fine, fresh condition, folio (260 x 305mm), Whitehall, 13 June 1667

Footnotes

'A gentleman of the greatest interest and credit' (according to Clarendon), Horatio Townshend, later 1st Viscount Townshend (1630-1687) of Raynham Hall in Norfolk sat briefly in the protectorate parliament but '...seems to have been ready to raise the county in 1659 if there was a successful royalist landing nearby... and was one of the twelve representatives from the Commons sent to escort Charles II from Breda...' (Stuart Handley, ODNB). Prior to that honour, he had also been arrested for attempting to seize King's Lynn for the crown. He held several local offices including Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk between 1660 and 1676, and in 1667, the date of our document, received a letter of thanks from the King for his services with the militia during the Second Anglo-Dutch war when the east coast of England was threatened with invasion. Townshend's regiment was one of twenty-two raised between 1665 and 1672 but few saw service in what were essentially naval battles and all were disbanded by 1674.

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