Miscellaneous legal papers

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Letter, signed by members of the Privy Council to the High Sheriff and J.P.s of Wiltshire to raise loans from the gentry of the shire for the prosecution of a war to recover the Palatinate. Signed by : L[ionel] Cranfield [Lord Cranfield]; [Henry Montague, Viscount] Mandeville, [James, Marquess of] Hamilton; [Thomas Howard, Earl of] [Arundel and Surrey; [William Herbert, Earl of] Pembroke; [Henry Carey, Viscount] Falkland; [Ludovic Stuart, Duke of] Lenox [sic]; G[eo] Carew [Baron Carew of Clopton]; Sir Julius Caesar; Richard Weston [later Earl of Portland]; [Sir] John Suckling; [Sir] T[homas] Edmondes; Geor. Calvert [later Baron Bathmore; G[eorge] Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury; Jo[hn Williams, Bishop of] Lincoln; La[ncelot Andrews, Bishop of] Winchester.