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GEORGE II: (1683-1760) King of Great Britain and Ireland 1727-60. L.S., George R, as King, with holograph ...
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GEORGE II: (1683-1760) King of Great Britain and Ireland 1727-60. L.S., George R, as King, with holograph subscription ('Your Cousin and Friend'), two pages, folio, dictated at Hampton Court Palace ('our Empire inside the other Empire'), 20th August 1728, to an unidentified Prince, in German. The King informs his correspondent that yesterday 'we received the sad letter which has informed us that our kind and beloved uncle the most serene and honourable Prince Ernst August, Duke of York and Albany, of Brunswick and Luneburg, Prince-Bishop of Osnabruck passed away after eight days of illness at his residence in Osnabruck on 14th August' and continues to remark 'This unexpected death takes us to the heart, and we are sure that you sympathise and mourn with us and our House. I would therefore like to express my sympathy to you'. With the upper half of the blank integral leaf featuring a black wax seal. An annotation at the head of the first page indicates that the letter was received at Marienburg on 14th September 1728. Some light age wear and a tear to the left margin, professionally repaired and only very slightly affecting a few words of text, but not the signature. About VG £400-600 Ernest Augustus (1674-1728) Duke of York and Albany, the younger brother of King George I. The Duke served as a soldier with some distinction under Emperor Leopold I during the Nine Years' War and the War of Spanish Succession. He died at Osnabruck on 14th August 1728 where, a year earlier, his brother King George I had also died.
