Hyde, Henry, Viscount Cornbury PAPERS RELATING TO THE COMMITTEE OF SECRECY, MOSTLY CONCERNING SECRET SERVICE AND OTHER GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE, IN FIVE BUNDLES: i) "A further report of the Commission of Secrecy", investigating the costs of military operations in the Americas in the early stages of the War of Jenkins's Ear, 55 pages, with an additional 16 appendices including summary financial accounts, witness depositions, and related details, 79 pages (134 pages in total), folio, c.1742; bundled together with eight miscellaneous summaries of specific government expenditures, including summary accounts of Secret Service expenditure, 1707-1720 and 1731-41, expenditure on bounties (with names of recipients), 1731-41, and subsidies for government-supporting newspapers, 1731-41; ii) Bundle of about twenty summary estimates of specific expenditures, mostly military, including regiments of marines, German troops in British pay, troops in the colonies, ordnance, navy, and other costs, with other related papers, 1740s; iii) Bundle of six papers relating to remittance of funds to British forces in Flanders, including proposals and Cornbury's draft pencil notes, early 1740s; iv) Bundle of four summaries of government surpluses for the Aggregate Fund, folio, 1745-46; v) Report on the military forces of France, 31 pages, folio, 1738
Hyde, Henry, Viscount Cornbury PAPERS RELATING TO THE COMMITTEE OF SECRECY, MOSTLY CONCERNING SECRET SERVICE AND OTHER GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE, IN FIVE BUNDLES: i) "A further report of the Commission of Secrecy", investigating the costs of military operations in the Americas in the early stages of the War of Jenkins's Ear, 55 pages, with an additional 16 appendices including summary financial accounts, witness depositions, and related details, 79 pages (134 pages in total), folio, c.1742; bundled together with eight miscellaneous summaries of specific government expenditures, including summary accounts of Secret Service expenditure, 1707-1720 and 1731-41, expenditure on bounties (with names of recipients), 1731-41, and subsidies for government-supporting newspapers, 1731-41; ii) Bundle of about twenty summary estimates of specific expenditures, mostly military, including regiments of marines, German troops in British pay, troops in the colonies, ordnance, navy, and other costs, with other related papers, 1740s; iii) Bundle of six papers relating to remittance of funds to British forces in Flanders, including proposals and Cornbury's draft pencil notes, early 1740s; iv) Bundle of four summaries of government surpluses for the Aggregate Fund, folio, 1745-46; v) Report on the military forces of France, 31 pages, folio, 1738
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