APPENDIX.]
ORDER OF THE THISTLE.
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declare you shall remain and continue.] For all which this shall be your Warrant. Given under OurRoyal hand (and the) signet of Our Order aforesaid, at Our Court at St. James’s, this seventh day ofJanuary 1763, in the third year of Our reign.
“ By His Majesty’s command,
“ Dunk Halifax.”
In the Warrant for the appointment of Doctor George Hill as Dean of the Order, on the 9thApril 1787, the passage within brackets was omitted.
COPY OF A MEMORIAL FROM THE USHER TO THE KING, PRAYING TO BE PUT UPON THE SAMEFOOTING AS THE LATE USHER, SIR THOMAS BRAND.
“ To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.
“ The Memorial of Robert Quarme, Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod,
“ Most humbly sheweth, That your Majesty was graciously pleased, in March 1762, to appointhim your Majesty’s Usher to the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, in the room ofSir Thomas Brand, deceased.
“ That the said Sir Thomas Brand, in consideration of having no salary as Green Rod, wasappointed Gentleman Usher daily Waiter to His late Majesty.
“ With all submission your Majesty’s Memorialist most humbly prays, that he may be put uponthe same footing as Sir Thomas Brand was, when a vacancy shall happen, or that your Majesty willbe graciously pleased to grant him a salary in like manner with the Ushers of the Garter and Bath.
“We, the Knights Companions of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, dohumbly recommend the said Robert Quarme to your Majesty’s Royal consideration:
1. Portmore. 5. Hyndford. 9. Beooke and Warwick.
2. Lothian. 6. Dysart. 10. March and Ruglen.
3. Morton. 7. Dumfries and Stair. 11. Cathcart.
4. Moray. 8. Rothes. 12. Argyll.
“ Memorandum. This Memorial was presented to the King by the Marquess of Rockingham,First Lord of the Treasury, on the 4th of July 1766, and met with a gracious reception; in conse-quence of which His Majesty was pleased to sign a Warrant for a Salary.”
COPY OF THE KING’S WARRANT GRANTING A SALARY OF £100 PER ANNUM TO ROBERT QUARME,ESQUIRE, AS USHER OF THE MOST ANCIENT AND MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE THISTLE.
“ GEORGE R.
“Trusty and well beloved, We greet you well. Whereas We have nominated, constituted, andappointed our trusty and well beloved Robert Quarme to be Usher of that Most Ancient and MostNoble Order of the Thistle, for and during his natural life. And We being graciously pleased toallow unto him, the said Robert Quarme, a yearly Fee or Salary of one hundred pounds, in respect ofthe said employment, Our will and pleasure therefore is, and We do hereby direct, authorize, andcommand that you do issue your Warrant to the Receiver-General of our land rents and casualtiesin that part of Our Kingdom of Great Britain called Scotland, authorizing and requiring him to payunto the said Robert Quarme or his assigns, the sums incurred or become due on the said yearly Feeor Salary of one hundred pounds, to be computed and paid by the day, from the second day of March1762, being the day on which he was appointed to the said employment, to the 5th day of April thennext ensuing, and from thenceforth quarterly, at the four most usual days of payment in the year, byeven and equal portions. And We do hereby charge and command, that you do cause the said yearlyFee or Salary of one hundred pounds and all payments thereupon, as they shall from time to timebecome due and payable, from the commencement thereof, to be inserted in the quarterly establish-ments or lists of payments of our Civil affairs in Scotland, so as the sums to be inserted therein maybe allowed and paid, in like manner as other the allowances and salaries on the same, lists shall fromtime to time be paid. And for so doing this shall be not only to you but to all others concerned a
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