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King George III Document Signed for Ratification of Treaties with Sweden

King George III ratifies a treaty with "our good brother the King of Sweden"

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King George III ratifies a treaty with "our good brother the King of Sweden"

Manuscript DS, signed “George R,” seventeen pages on bound sets of adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 12, July 15, 1807. King George III issues a warrant for affixing the "Great Seal of Great Britain to be affixed to two Instruments…(copies whereof are & hereunto annexed) containing our Ratifications of a Treaty concluded & signed at Stralsund on the 23d Day of June last, between us and our good brother the King of Sweden, by our respective plenipotentiaries." Signed at the head in ink by King George III (partially covered by the affixed white paper seal), and countersigned at the conclusion by Foreign Secretary George Canning. Manuscript copies of the instruments are annexed to the document, bound together with a navy blue silk ribbon. In fine condition, with some faint staining to the first page.

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