Reference2664/3/2D/2/14
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TitleAccounts and other documents relating to the military career of Major General Sharington Davenport.
Description1. 1703/1704 list of officers.
2. 9 and 14 May 1712 Letters from Saunderson relating to the above list, speaking about vacant commissions (2).
3. Account for Captain Davenport to Mar 1691 with an incomplete page listing payments of officers.
4. 4 Apr 1708 Letter from R Dormer to unknown discussing his Northern journey.
5. Undated and 1692-1699 accounts between Colonel Davenport and his troops.
6. 1700-1703 Colonel Davenport's account.
7. 1713 List of effective gentlemen of the first troop of guards.
8. 1692 Account between Captain Villiers and his troop.
9. 1692 Receipt from Sharington Davenport to Mr Pauncefoot for dividend for Colonel Wyndham's regiment of horse.
10. 1709 Note by Sharington Davenport concerning the purchase of horses.
11. 1700 Receipt from Thomas Hanmer to John Wilkes for payment for a horse.
12. 1706 Receipted bill from John Jepson, saddler.
13. 1708-1709 Notes from Brigadier Davenport to Mr Wilkes, clerk to the first of horse guards, asking him to pay various people for horses (13).
14. 1709 Receipt from Elizabeth Alloway for payment for a black horse.
15. Feb 1707 Letter from Lord Albemarle to Colonel Ogilby, commander of the first company of the Queen's Guards, to say that he has been ill for 4 or 5 months, explaining his delay in writing and saying that he will now write to him more regularly. He is angry to learn that things are not going well for him and that he would like to help, as he knows that an injustice is done to him. He is asking him to send a precise state of his company, officers as well as guards, with all their names, as well as they are placed in each squadron.
16. 1692-1699 Account of clearings of Major Davenport.
17. Certification by Butler of payment from the King to Major Sharington Davenport for his services as Captain and Major in Wyndham's regiment of Carabiniers from 1692 to 1699.
18. Undated account for Lieutenant Sharington Davenport in Ireland.
19. Part of a bill from Robert Barrett to Captain Talbot.
20. 26 May 1699 Copy of the minutes of a meeting of the chief officers of the army in the Great Chamber of the Horseguards concerning Thomas Gambell, who made a petition which was dismissed.
21. 10 May 1699 Sentence of a regimental court martial at Winsdor regarding Corporal Thomas Gambell who was accused of disobedience, gambling and leading his men astray. Sentenced to be "broke as corporal and solider out of the service".
Date1692-1713
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