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Paperback. First Edition. 87 pages, unbound as issued, condition mostly Very good, clean & tight, no inscriptions etc., edge dirt/staining, was bound with other law docs. A most fascinating House of Commons document full of Facts including £407.16.0 Gen Balfour paid to Officers of 39th Reg for losses sustained in surrender/evacuation of Bevill Camp in Guadeloupe, £47,200 to Maj. Gen. Bentinck for raising a corps of Dutch Troops for HMS. £569 paid to James Campbell President og Tobago. £200 paid to Lt. Col. Calvert for Secret Services, in 1756 £900 to Hugh Wallacefor troops in North Carolina, or £7,317 to Lord Rollo Governor of Island of Dominica 1761-2, £100 to King's Regiment New York 1778, or £22,000 paid to His Serene Highness, Prince Frederick of Orange for raising Dutch Troops in 1795, or Capt. Cambell £3,417. 9s 1d of the Royal American Regiment for several Nations of (Red) Indians near Detroit & onija. £68 to Francis Burrows Surgeon at Newcastle Hospital. £1,890. 18s to Peter Clarke of Ferrit to convey to St. Christopher's and pay of Negro slaves for a secret expedition. List of over 50 people owing money, i.e Sir Lawrence Cox now a bankrupt owing £5,475 + for provisions to forces in North & South Carolina, Georgia & East Florida, or £500 owed by Maj. Duncan Quartermaster -general Port Ferrajo 1787-8 now address unknown. Or £23,445. 14s 1d owed by Edmund Lincoin Governor of St. Vincents 1784-1787, but died there insolvent in 1786. and so much more includes lots of names, dates & countries. Seems to cover dates from 1750's to 1805. From a large collection of ex Middle Temple HOC books, I purchased at a small uncatalogued auction about 35 years ago, Most books sold at the time, some books kept for myself and split about 15 years ago. At time of listing could not find another copy for sale. 21 x 33cm Approx.