(ENGLAND 1711) Marlborough John Churchill 1st Duke Testimon

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(ENGLAND--1711.) Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke. Testimony for court-martial on the front, with pardon signed by Marlborough. Document Signed as "Marlborough" and also by Charles Schomburg, Marquess of Harwich. 4 pages, 12 1/2 x 8 inches, on one sheet; moderate foxing. Lens (France), 24 June 1711

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This official manuscript court-martial proceeding from the War of the Spanish Succession is mostly dedicated to the case of Lieutenant John Saygriffe, accused of cowardice at the Battle of Wijnendale. The cases of several other soldiers accused of theft and murder are dispatched more quickly. At the bottom of the final page is a five-line note signed by Marlborough, concluding with a decision of clemency: "I have thought fit to grant, and do accordingly extend, mercy and pardon to the two latter, and order them to be releas'd and return'd to their respective troops."