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1 - Description of lot offered at Sotheby's.
2 - List of places where each regiment of the king's army was to be quartered, 7 December 1642.
3 - [Draft] warrant from Lieutenant Colonel Littleton to Sir Jacob Astley ('Asteley'), governor of Reading, authorising him to spend money for the garrison, 18 December 1643.
4 - List of places where horse and dragoon regiments and troops have been quartered by order of Prince Rupert, n.d. [c.February 1643].
5 - Findings of a meeting of the Council of War at Reading, presided over by Sir Jacob Astley ('Asteley'), 3 February 1643.
6 - Draft proclamation of the king ordering the inhabitants of Reading who have left the town for London, to return home by the following December, on pain of confiscation of their houses and goods in Reading.
7 - Calculations of numbers of men mustered at Reading and in need of supplies.
8 - Draft commission for victualling the army and raising money for the same.
9 - Passports and safe conduct for Sir Arthur Aston.
10 - Commissions by the Earl of Northumberland and the Earl of Strafford to Sir Arthur Aston as Sergeant Major General of the king's forces at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, April 1640, and of the trained bands of Yorkshire and sundry other companies, September 1640.
11 - Appointment by the king of Sir Arthur Aston as governor of Reading, 22 November 1642.
12 - Commission by Prince Rupert to Sir Arthur Aston as captain of a free company of dragoons to act as auxiliary to Sir Arthur's horse regiment, and to be raised from volunteers in any oart of the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales, 17 March 18 Charles I [1643].
13 - Commission from Prince Maurice of the Rhine to Sir Arthur Aston as Colonel General of a brigade of horse, 22 June 1644.

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