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Power & Patronage in Georgian England - a George III ink manuscript contract of clerical appointment, signed and sealed by William Amherst, 2nd Baron Amherst (later the 1st Earl, a Colonial administrator in China and India; 1773-1857), naming the Reverend Edward Chaplin (?1771-1858) his "domestic Chaplain that he may by virtue hereof have hold possess and enjoy all he privileges, benefits, immunities and advantages which may or do of right belong to the Chaplains of the Peers of this Realm by the laws and statutes thereof [...]", dated 9th March, 1798, witnessed by Calv. Clapham, and registered at the Office of Faculties by George Moore, Reg:r, retaining the full armorial wax seal impression of Amehurst, 31cm x 19.5cm, framed
Both Amehurst and Chaplin are recorded as having been at Westminster; so presumably they were school fellows before Chaplin enjoyed the second baron's patronage on succeeding his father in 1797.
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