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The Royal Navy under Charles II. An Act for providing Carriage by Land, and by Water, for the use of His Majesties Navy and Ordnance, London: Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1662, Black Letter printing, [12pp], worm trails to lower-right margin, disbound, small folio, further unconnected ephemera, including a George III parliamentary act, An Act for laying a Toll upon all Horses and Carriage passing on a Sunday over Blackfriars Bridge [...], London: Eyre and the Executors of W. Strahan, 1786, disbound, small folio, The London Gazette, Numb. 15483, Tuesday May 25, to Saturday May 29, 1802, 8pp, folio, The Channel Islands, a George IV militia officer's commission, Major Elias Guerin Esquire, 1st or East Guernsey Militia, signed and bearing the armorial red wax seal of the then governor of Guernsey, George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke, the foolscap printed by Easton, Endless-street, Sarum, and inscribed in ink manuscript, (4).
The 'Act for Land Carriage' appears in the diary of Samuel Pepys, then Secretary to the Admiralty, on Saturday, 13th May, 1665, when he visits 'the Atturney (sic) General, about advice [...] which he desired not to give me before I had received the the King's and Council's order'; on his return home he 'bespoke the [late] King's works [the Eikon Basilike], will cost 50s.'
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