Document signed : Kensington, to Charles Townshend, Viscount, 1708 June 15.

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Document signed : Kensington, to Charles Townshend, Viscount, 1708 June 15.

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Directing him to commission Thomas Wyndham Esq. as a "Corporall of Our Guard of Yeomen of the Guard."

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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