| Description | Papers to do with the public offices of Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1750-1828), including: 1782 letter from the Privy Council to the Lords Lieutenants about the shortage of sailors for the Navy (signed among others by Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox), 1782; accounts of speeches to Wiltshire Quarter Sessions as chairman, and the Berkshire Quarter Sessions as the same, the latter being reported in the 19 January 1801 edition of Reading Mercury and Oxford Gazette; printed minutes of a meeting of Lords lieutenants and militia officers, 1805; letter from Frederick, duke of York about the militia and calling a meeting of lords lieutenant, 1803; letter from lord Palmerston about the pay of an adjutant of Volunteers, 1812; a modern typescript of the 1822 proceedings of Wallingford Borough Council about a portrait of the 2nd Earl to hang in the chambers and the parchment original of the letter of thanks from the Council. Notes by the earl of a speech on the Militia bill, [1802]; a draft letter to the council of the city of London thanking it for its support in his work to reduce wasteful expenditure of public money, and a note on the dignity of the Order of the Garter, undated. |