The
Right Honourable George Cavendish Esquire commonly called Lord George
Cavendish Lord Lieutenant and custos rotulorum //
of
the county of Derby; and one of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy
Council,//
To
Richd. Beaumont Gent.://
I
reposing special trust and confidence in your Loyalty Courage and
Conduct to do His Majesty good and faithfull service, by virtue of
the power and authority to //
me
given by the King's most Excellent Majesty under the Great Seal of
Great Britain, as Lord Lieutenant of the said County of Derby and in
pursuance of an Act//
of
Parliament made and passed in the Second year of His Majesty's reign
entitled an Act to Explain, Amend and Reduce into one Act of
Parliament the several//
Laws
now in being relating to the raising and training the Militia within
that part of Great Britain called England and of all other laws now
in being relating to//
the
said Militia; have nominated, constituted appointed and given
Commission to and by these Presents do nominate, constitute, appoint
and give Commission to you//
the
said Richard Beaumont to be Ensign in a Company of the Militia of the
said County of Derby under my command whereof His Grace the Duke of
Devonshire//
is
Colonel, you are therefore to take the said Company into your care
and charge as Ensign thereof; and duly to train, exercise, and
discipline the inferior Officers and//
other
persons armed and arrayed or to be armed and arrayed in the same
according to the rules and discipline of War and the direction of the
said Act of Parliament.//
or
any other laws now in force relating to the said Militia; and I do
hereby command them and every of them to obey you as their Ensign and
you are to observe and//
follow
such orders and directions as you shall from time to time receive
from His Majesty, myself, my deputy Lieutenants, your Colonel, or any
other your superior//
officer;
pursuant to the trust hereby reposed in you and your duty to His
Majesty. Given at London under my hand and seal this twenty fifth day
of January in//
the
twenty second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King
Defender of the//
Faith,
&c and in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and
eighty two.
George
Cavendish Lieutenant
Stamps
and seal
Provenance: Southwell (from East Bridgford)
Comment: I think he was christened in February 1761, so at this date he was just, or about to be, 21. It appears likely that he will have gone, with the Derbyshire Militia, to Devon in 1782 (see newspaper reports, Derby Mercury). It also seems that the Militia was stood down or "disembodied" early in 1783, assembling most years thereafter for four weeks training. He remained in it until at least 1789, when he was promoted to Lieutenant shortly before that year's assembly (London Gazette, Derby Mercury). He lived, later in his life, in Birmingham (lots of evidence in this Archive), and it seems that he is the RB who was living there from 1784. There are various puzzles about him, including in particular about his marriages, which I intend to bring up in later posts.
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