A memorial and petition to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, on the principles of public faith, common justice, and His own royal promise / [Samuel Lee].

  • Lee, Samuel, active 1743-1800
Date:
[1771]
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Credit: A memorial and petition to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, on the principles of public faith, common justice, and His own royal promise / [Samuel Lee]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *7 ] 4C North Audley-Street, Oftober 14, 1763. “ Sir, <c AS Mr. Lee has defired me to inform you, <c or any other his Majefty’s fecretary at war “ for the time being, in what manner his pen- <c fion was granted : “ It was, he fhould have two hundred pounds “ per annum for his life, in confideration and “ on condition of his receiving into his Hofpi- <c tal and relieving fuch ruptured foldiers as fhould, from time to time, be fent thither; “ and he was alfo to receive from the regiments “ Two Guineas for every recovered man; but cc this method of Two Guineas being paid be- ing found impracticable, by the difperlion of <c the troops, and the refufal of the furgeons to ce give certificates of cure, it waspropofed by Mr. cc Lee and agreed, he fhould not claim any re- “ ward from the regiments, and that his falary <c fhould be augmented to three hundred “ pounds per annum for his life , and every “ man who had been in his hands and re- <c mained in the corps able to ferve, fhould be “ reputed cured ; and as feveral officers from cc different regiments have certified that many tc men of their corps have been rendered fer- cc vjceable, and done their duty in their refpeo tive regiments after they have been relieved by Mr. Lee, and many men of my regiment a are well, and now ferving in the regiment; D “ I think