Letter from Capt Peter Shakarley to Sir William Blathwayte (Secretary of State for War), 1688.
Asking what was to become of the large numbers of troops arriving in Chester which he was having trouble finding accommodation for as the public houses in the city were already full.
With manuscript and printed transcripts.
From a collection of 11 documents relating to the Glorious Revolution (1688).
Capt Shakarley succeeded his father as Governor of Chester, 11 No 1682 and became a Captain in Sir Edward Hales's Regiment of Foot, November 1687.
Associated with the 14th Regiment of Foot.