Letter from George Grenville, Marquess of Buckingham, to Sir, an unidentified job printer, refusing to pay for an order placed fraudulently, 1795, November 15.

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Letter from George Grenville, Marquess of Buckingham, to Sir, an unidentified job printer, refusing to pay for an order placed fraudulently, 1795, November 15.

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The letter was written to an as yet unidentified job-printer who had delivered to the Marquess a shipment of handbills offering a reward of 500 pounds for the author of a supposed libel against him, said to have been posted in Stowe Park and around the town of Buckingham. The Marquess claimed that both his signature and seal on the letter placing the order were forged, and regretted that the printer and the Editor of The True Briton had been taken in. He refused to pay the bill and returned the ruined paper stock with his apologies. The printer is probably John Stockdale (information from HM 76777).

1 page, 23cm.

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Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814

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Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813

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British public official. From the description of Collection of Stowe MSS., 1375-1818. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85185766 George Grenville, afterward Nugent Temple Grenville (1753-1813), of Stowe, succeeded his uncle as Earl Temple in 1779 and was created 1st Marquess of Buckingham in 1784. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire from 1782 unrtil his death and as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1782-83 and 1787-89. Before his elevation to the peerage he had been a ...