NAM.1976-09-43-1

Manuscript commission on parchment signed by Queen Anne, dated 25 Mar 1705. Appointing Ralph Congreve a Lieutenant Colonel in the ‘Regiment of Foot to be forthwith raised for our Service, under the Command of...Colonel William Breton’, and a Captain of a company in the regiment. Breton’s Regiment of Foot was ordered to be raised in March 1705 and from April 1711 was commanded by James Butler being known by his name. It was disbanded in August 1712.