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A quantity of letters and manuscript statements of accounts addressed to Lieutenant, later Capt., John Orde, Weetwood, Near Wooler, Northumberland from Thomas & Wm. Maude, Navy Agents, c.1768-1810, giving details of half pay, pension &c. but also with naval news: "There are a number of ships gone & going to America, Mr Shuldham supersedes Adm. Graves in the Chief command" (19/10/1775); "Mr Wilkes creates great Disturbance among the lower sort of people" (10/5/1768), "It is much to be feared that the unhappy fate of Gen. Burgoyne & his Army may be the means of our losing America" (5/12/1777); Also letters to & financial statements of Major General L.S. Orde, c. 1810-15, Correspondence, including a secretarial letter signed by Palmerston, regarding a Capt. Docherty's claim to pay as his Aide de Camp, War Office, 22/2/1813; some to Major General Orde, Commanding H.M. Troops, St. Vincent, from Geo Beckwith and others, Barbados and St Vincent, 1809-11, a letter from the Adjutant General's office relating to the removal of the Limerick County Militia from Athlone, 18/12/1813;