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Two documents signed by Queen Anne and a receipt, all relating to campaigns of the duke of marlborough, comprising:

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i) Diplomatic letter in Latin, to Lothar Franz, Archbishop of Mainz, in a secretarial hand, subscribed and signed by the Queen ("Cels^nis V^ra Emenentissima Bona Consanguinea AnnaR") [Your Most Eminent Highness and Good Kinswoman Anne R], countersigned by her Secretary of State Robert Harley, formally pledging her amity towards the German confederate states and earnestly warning them about the calamitous threat posed by france, 3 pages, folio, address panel, papered seal, with typed translation, Kensington Palace, 21 February 1706/7, seal tear

...truly entering, France, joined with Bavaria, considers carrying war into the Heart of the Empire: what great difficulties will arise for all of us from this...even at the very thought of all the miseries under which Germany will then labour our mind shudders...with accustomed bravery let us repel their troops...[let] the promised troops be prepared as quickly as possible and money be provided for all the expenses and equipment of war...(translation)

ii) Warrant signed ("AnneR"), commanding James Brydges, Paymaster General, to pay £6,594 18s 7d to Solomon Abrams for providing "large Magazines of Provisions & Forrage for the use of the Confederate Army that Marched to Bavaria in the Campagne 1704 under the Command of Our Right Trusty & Right Entirely beloved Cousin & Councillor John Duke of Marlborough", counter-signed by her Secretary of State Henry St John (later Viscount Bolingbroke), 1 page, folio, endorsed with receipt, Kensington Palace, 1 October 1707, damp-stained and browned, minor repair, traces of mounting

iii) Receipt signed by John Pitt, for 3,000 Dutch guilders from Benjamin Sweet "for the accompt of his highness the Prince and Duke of Marlborough", a half-folio page, Amsterdam, 24 March 1712, traces of mounting

CATALOGUE NOTE

Benjamin Sweet was the Paymaster General who was prosecuted in 1712, together with Marlborough, for alleged irregularities.