Author: HAWKESBURY, Lord [Charles Jenkinson 1st Earl of Liverpool]
Title: (Circular) [To the Lord Lieutenants of Counties in Great Britain] My Lord, I have received His Majesty's Commands to communicate to your Lordship the inclosed Particulars of an Arrangement to be adopted in the several Counties of Great Britain, in the Event of an invasion of the Country in Force by the Enemy.
Description: Preston: Croft, printer, 1804. Folio, bifolium printed first two sides only Copy of the letter from Hawkesbury, at the time President of the Board of Trade and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, regarding magistrates appointed for the purpose, they "not holding Commissions as Volunteer Officers, nor liable on any other account to be removed from the Country in which they reside." This to ensure continuity of leadership in the event of an invasion.

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