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Document 32513

GEORGE CARTERET and OTHERS. Manuscript LS: "G. Carteret", "Anglesey", "Finch", "Arlington", "Ormonde" and "J. Coventry", 1½p, 7½x12. Derby House, 1673 March 7. In Olde English. In full: "For Our hearty commendations His Ma[jes]ty having been pleased by his order in Councill dated yr 6th instant to reduce the late Declaration of Victualls For 35000 men for eight months to Eight Thouzand Two hundred more Victualls for the same Sum to be distributed in the severale Victualling posts under mentioned (Vizt): London-4680, Portsmouth 400, Livoirno 300, Plimouth 700, Dover 1130, Kinsale 200, Dublin 50, Ipswich 2q40, Tangeir 500 [total] 8200. These are to pray and require you forthwith to give suitable orders therein accordingly and you are hereby further desired to take notice That it is His Ma[jes]tys further pleasure That the Victualls said to be actually Issued on the above mentioned Declaration for 35000 men before the publication of ye plan are not to be understood to be included in the Eight Thousand Two hundred men Victually hereby ordered to be further provided for the service of the present Year." GEORGE CARTERET was one of eight to receive the grant of Carolina (1663). He was the proprietor (from 1664 to his death in 1680) with Lord John Berkeley of the territory between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers named New Jersey in honor of the island of his birth. HENEAGE FINCH was Lord Chancellor and the original Amri in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. JAMES BUTLER, 1st DUKE OF ORMONDE, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, concluded peace with the Catholic Confederacy in 1649. HENRY BENNET, 1st EARL OF ARLINGTON, was Secretary of State under King Charles II (1662-1674), effectively serving as Chief Minister after the fall of Clarendon in 1667. Worn and nicked edges which are soiled. Right corners are missing. Folds touch some signatures.

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