Sales catalogue 591: Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/133
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 591: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MONSIEUR ALEXANDRE. 2 pp., 8v0. -N.D. 10s 6d ‘¢ Voulez vous avoir l’obligeance d’envoyer une orgue du Herz pour Samedi.”’ Htc. Or DUTCH INTEREST. ** THE RESTRAINING ORDERS.”’’ William of Orange, and commanded his lifeguards at the Battle of the Boyne. Succeeded Marlborough in command of the English forces in Flanders, but was subject to the historic ‘‘ Restraining Orders.”’ Impeached under George I and retired to France. LETTER SIGNED «IN FRENCH) BY THE THREE DEPUTIES OF THE STATES GENERAL OF THE ARMY, ADDRESSED LO TH DUKE OF ORMONDE. 4 pp., folio. Dated from ‘‘Au Camp d’Avesnes le Sec., 4th June, 1712.”° Bearimg the signatures of W. Hoost, W. J. Haertolte; and P. F. Vegilin Van Claerbergen, the three deputies. £7 10s Of the greatest historical importance, protesting against the inaction of the Duke in the war in Flanders; the terrible dilemma may well be imagined in which Ormonde found himself when, having received the strictest secret instructions from home to do nothing, he read this letter, and he knew he would be regarded as betraying the Allies. The Deputies set forth the extreme surprise which is felt by the States at the news of the Declaration the Duke has made that he can undertake nothing until he has letters from England, and of his refusal to engage either in the siege or a battle. The States cannot conceive that any general orders given to the Duke can be interpreted as a prohibition from taking active measures when so favourable a position as the present occurs. They remind him that a large portion of the troops which he commands are not British troops, but troops in the common pay of the Queen and of the States, and are engaged by the two powers to make war, and that they cannot be withdrawn from such common employment without violating treaties already existing. The States therefore make a vigorous protest against the present inaction of the Duke, and ask him for a definite and precise indication of the nature of his orders from home, and require him to give no hindrance to the troops in common employment in their action according to the principles of war and in accordance with solemn treaties.
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