Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

‘Beat of Drum’ Recruitment Warrant 1809, authorising Peter Craig, Colonel of the 67th or South Hampshire Regiment of Foot, to recruit, 318 x 202mm., inscribed in ink on one side, ‘These are to Authorize you by Beat of Drum or otherwise to raise so many Men in any County within that part of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Great Britain as are or shall be wanting to Recruit and fill up the respective Companies of our Regiment of Fo. under your Command to the numbers allowed ... this 24 day of February 1809 in the 49 Year of Our Reign’; bearing the signatures ‘George R’ (George III) and ‘Ja. Pulteney’, good condition £300-500

Sir James Murray, 7th Baronet of Clermont, Fifeshire (1751?-1811), took the name Pulteney at the time of his marriage in 1794. A soldier - attaining the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1803 and also a Member of Parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, 1790-1811. He was Secretary at War under the Grenvile administration of 1806-7. He died following the accidental explosion of a powder flask in his hands. Sold with some biographical details.