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Collection	George IV Calendar as Prince, Regent and King
Reference	GEO/MAIN/38422-38428
Record Type	Writings (documents)
Title	Notes by Edmund Burke on the proposed Regency, in response to William Pitt's proposals for restrictions
Date	[?c. January 1789]
Writer	Burke, Edmund
Addressee	[Pitt, William]
Description	The text objects to the restrictions on the Prince's control of patronage, writing of the offices of the Court & Household, 'instead of a mark of dignity to the Crown or its representative & the means [of] support to those stations, [they] are intended as a matter of humiliation & as a scource of weakness'. [Written on behalf of George, Prince of Wales]. Draft with frequent annotations and sections crossed out.
Language	English
Extent	1 document (7 pages)
Physical Description	Loose manuscript paper; mounted
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Publications	Published in A. Aspinall "The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales 1770-1812" (London, 1963) Vol. 1; no 373
Level	Item

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