papers, papers
Accession Number
NAM.1963-09-579-1
Description
Scroll relating the history of Sir Thomas Picton’s hat, nd.
Events
Waterloo, Battle of, 1815 (Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo 1815)
People
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NAM.1963-09-579-1
Scroll relating the history of Sir Thomas Picton’s hat, nd.
Waterloo, Battle of, 1815 (Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo 1815)
Inscribed (transcription): Carmarthenshire [...] the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Sovereign to wit the Lord King holder and kept at the Guildhall in the Town of Carmarthen and for the said County in the week next after the Eleventh day of October in tenth year of our reign of our Sovereign Lord George IV, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith and in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Nine. Before John Jones Esquire, the Honorable George Rice, Trevor Sackville, Gwyness Robert Evens, Rhys Goring Thomas, John Edward Saunders, Sackville Frederick Gwynne, Walter Rice Howell Powell, John George Phillips, John Johnes, John [...] Phillips, George Lloyd, William Chambers, John Bower, Daniel Prytherch, William Jones, Henry Lloyd, Grismond Phillips, Thomas Morris, Thomas Powell, David Lewis, John Hughes Rees, Esquires, The Reverend Benjamin Lewes, The Reverend John Evans, The Reverend David Lewis, Clerks xxx xxx xxx xxx and Others, their Companions, Trustees of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the peace in the said County and also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses and Other Misdemeanours in the said County Committed: - Resolved that the Thanks of this County are peculiarly due to the Reverend Edward PIcton, Clerk, for his very handsome present to the subscribers to the column in memory of his brother, the late Sir Thomas Picton, and particularly to the Lord Lieutenant and Magistracy of this County of a full length portrait of that Lamented Hero. That every care be adopted to preserve to future ages the splendid likeness of the Form and features of the man, the Memory of whose Heroic Deeds will live forever in the recollection of his grateful Country Men and whose praises so justly merited will always excite the Pride and Emulation of Britons in general and of Welshman in particular. That this resolution be fairly inscribed on Parchment and be presented by the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions to the Reverend Edward Picton at the first convenient opportunity. By the Order of the Court Signed [Signature] Clerk of the Peace