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GEORGE IV (1762-1830) Roi d'Angleterre

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GEORGE IV (1762-1830) Roi d'Angleterre

P.S. "George PR" (at head), Palace of Carlton House [London] Dec. 27, 1815| countersigned by the Secretary of State for the Foreign Office, Viscount CASTLEREAGH| 8-page folio, bound with a blue silk ribbon, seal of arms under head paper| in English and French.

Office, Viscount CASTLEREAGH| 8-page folio, bound with blue silk ribbon, seal of arms under paper at head| in English and French.

Treaty for the maintenance of troops supplied to the Allies by the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha.

"Warrant for affixing the Great Seal to the Ratification of a Treaty of Subsidy between His Majesty and His Serene Highness the Reigning Duke of Saxony Gotha and Altenburgh".

Mandate of the Prince Regent, in the name of the King, to put the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the ratification, in the name of His Majesty, of a Treaty of Subsidy between His Majesty and the Reigning Duke of Saxony-Gotha and Altenburgh, concluded and signed in Paris on the 1st of August, 1815, by the plenipotentiaries the Duke of Wellington and the Baron of Gersdorff.

Follows the copy of this convention, in a preamble recalling the commitment taken by the Duke at the time of the signature of the Treaty of the Great Alliance signed in Vienna, and 3 articles, which envisages that Great Britain will pay a monthly subsidy of 11 pounds sterling 2 shillings per man, for the contingent of 2,200 men provided to the Alliance by the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha, until the end of the month in which the definitive treaty of peace "between the Allied Powers and France" will have been signed

This document was intended for the Chancellor of Great Britain John Lord ELDON.