Raynors HCA 2016-10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/21/2016
Broadside, “By the King, A PROCLAMATION Declaring his Majesties Pleasure for Continuing Officers in Great Britain and Ireland, GEORGE R. “ January 15, 1714, 13” x 17”, with three small holes, only one affecting text. In part, “Whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of the late Queen Anne, Our most Dear Sister, Intituled, An Act for the Security of Her Majesties Person and Government, and of the Succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the Protestant Line,1 It was Enacted, amongst other Things, That no Office, Place, or Employment, Civil or Military, within any of Her said late Majesties Plantations ...” Anne became Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, united as a single sovereign state known as Great Britain. She continued to reign as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death.
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