MISCELLANEOUS 469
PENINSULA WAR WARRANT, authorising ‘His Excellency Field Marshal the Marquis of Wellington K.G. & K.B. Commanding His Majesty’s Forces in Spain & Portugal... to receive from Sir Robert Hugh Kennedy Knt. Commissary General the sum of eighteen thousand two hundred pounds sterling for the Ordinary service of the Forces under my Command... Given under my hand at Head Quarters this 14th day of March 1814’, signed ‘Wellington’, watermarked ‘W Tucker 1812’, in card mount, creased but in very good condition for age and very scarce £100-200
470
WELLINGTON ANDWATERLOO INTEREST, signed receipt for pay for ‘Staff on the Continent’, in the name of ‘His Grace the Duke of Wellington as Field Marshal with 6 Aides de Camp. 61 Days Pay From 25th April to 24th June 1815... at the rate of £19.5.9 per Day... the Sum of One Thousand One Hundred and Seventy Six Pounds, Ten Shillings and Nine Pence’, signed ‘Wellington’ and dated Paris 13th August 1815, in card mount, central fold, otherwise extremely good condition and very rare
£300-500
Covering the period of the Battle of Waterloo, this receipt for the Duke of Wellington’s pay as Field Marshal was issued by ‘the Right Honourable the Pay- Master General of His Majesty’s Land Forces, by the hands of William Purdue Smith, Esqr. Deputy Pay-Master General to the Forces serving in the Low Countries’, ‘and directed to the said William Purdue Smith Esqr., for which I [Wellington] have given three Receipts of the same Tenor and Date.’
471
COMMISSION AND BESTOWAL DOCUMENTS (10), comprising COMMISSION DOCUMENT appointing J. S. Ferguson Fowke, Esquire a Major in the Infantry, dated 21 May 1866; BESTOWAL DOCUMENT appointing Major-General Arthur Arnold Barrett, C.B. a Knight Commander of the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, dated 14 August 1908; BESTOWAL DOCUMENT appointing General Sir Arthur Arnold Barrett, K.C.B., K.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., A.D.C. a Knight Grand Cross of the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, dated 3 June 1918, in Central Chancery envelope;WARRANT dispensing with the Ceremony of the Personal Investiture of General Sir Arthur Arnold Barrett, K.C.B., K.C.S.I., K.C.V. O., A.D.C. as a Knight Grand Cross of the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, dated 3 June 1918; BESTOWAL DOCUMENT appointing General Sir Arthur Arnold Barrett, G.C.B., K.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., A.D.C. a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, dated 1 January 1920; BESTOWAL DOCUMENT appointing Major Nicholas Hugh Lawrence Watts, Indian Army an Officer of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, dated 3 June 1929; BESTOWALDOCUMENT appointing Lieutenant John Hughes, Royal Navy an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, dated 9 June 1949, with Central Chancery and Buckingham Palace enclosures, in Central Chancery envelope addressed to ‘Lieutenant John Hughes, M. B.E., R.N., H.M.S. “Gamecock”, R.N. Air Station, Bramcote, Nuneaton, Warwicks’; MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES CERTIFICATE named to ‘Mr. John Hughes, Boatswain, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Jade and dated 14 January 1941; COMMISSION DOCUMENT appointing Charles Laws a Second Lieutenant in the Home Guard, dated 2 October 1952; and a BESTOWAL DOCUMENT on vellum appointing Louis Victor, Fauque de Jonquières a Chevalier of the Princely State of Hohenlohe’s House Order of the Phoenix, dated Paris, 25 September 1816, with wax seal intact, generally good condition, the last rare (10) £80-120
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