1-272-795 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Paragraph written by George III for insertion in a speech, 1760. A paragraph written by King George III for insertion into his first speech from the throne after his accession. Enclosed in a letter, endorsed 15th November 1760, from the Earl of Bute to the Duke of Newcastle, First Lord of the Treasury, who had submitted the Speech for the royal approval. Lord Bute speaks of the paragraph as the 'the words which His Majesty wll have inserted and has for that purpose wrote out himself'. From the third series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V, (London, 1899).