Letter and Copy Orders

Scope and Content

Letter from Charles Potts, deputy clerk of the peace, to Lord Stamford (/42), dated 2 May 1798. Encloses a copy of the orders made at a general meeting of deputy lieutenants on 30 April (/43). Orders were issued for convening the remaining part of the supplementary militia on 14 May. C.P. has sent returns of musters of the provisional cavalry and of volunteer corps in the county.

Dated at: Chester.