A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times.Sampson, Henry
History
A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times.
Sampson, Henry
Advertising -- History
THESE are by Order of the Right Hon. my Lords and others,
Commissioners for the Affairs of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, to
give Notice that all Out-Pensions (as well Lettermen as others)
belonging to the said Hospital, residing in London or within
twenty-five miles thereof, are required to appear personally at the
Secretary’s Office in the said Hospital; and are required also, to
appear regimentally on the respective days appointed for them as are
hereafter mentioned, when attendance will be given from nine o’clock
in the morning till three in the afternoon, in order to register their
appearances, viz.:--
Thursday, Jan. 3rd, 1788.
The Pensioners from the 1st, 2nd, and late 3rd and 4th Troops of Horse
Guards--Royal Horse Guards Blues; 3rd, 4th, and 7th Regiments of
Horse; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Regiments of Dragoon Guards; and all the
Dragoons within the British Legion.
Friday, Jan. 4th.
The First and Second Regiments of Foot Guards.
Saturday, Jan. 5th.
Those from the Third Regiment of Foot Guards, and the Pensioners from
the First to the Thirteenth Regiments of Foot inclusive.
Monday, Jan. 7th.
Those from the Fourteenth to the Forty-fifth Regiments of Foot
inclusive.
Tuesday, Jan. 8th.
Those from the Forty-sixth to the Ninetieth Regiments of Foot
inclusive.
Wednesday, Jan. 9th.
Those from the Ninety-first to the One Hundred and Nineteenth
Regiments of Foot inclusive, the Pensioners from Lord Strathaven’s,
Major Waller’s, Olford’s, and Triik’s Corps, the Royal Garrison
Battalion, Royal Irish Quick’s Rangers, Fencibles in North Britain,
Cinque Ports and Lancashire Volunteers, with all the American and
other corps. Those from the Militia, as also the Pensioners from the
ten reduced Regiments of Marine, those from the broken Regiments of
Foot, those discharged from the Scotch castles, the Independent
Companies abroad, and those who have been In-pensioners of Chelsea
Hospital, Lettermen and men at Ninepence per day.
And that all Out-pensioners (as well Lettermen as others) belonging to
the said Hospital, who live at a greater distance than 25 miles from
London, and those in Scotland and Ireland, are hereby required and
commanded that after the 25th of December, and after every succeeding
25th of June and December, till further orders, they forthwith apply
themselves to one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in the
neighbourhood where they reside, and make the following affidavit,
which the said magistrate for the county, city, borough, or riding,
before whom the Pensioners appear shall sign and date, viz.:--
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