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Auction: 15037 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 21

Documents
Grimston Yeomanry Cavalry
1795 (c.) Enrollment poster, which includes "To be under the Command of Thomas Grimston Esq. to attend mounted upon a Serviceable Gelding or Mare, without receiving any pay for the same; to be subject to be called upon and embroiled within any part of Great Britain, in case of Invasion or Appearance of an Enamy in force upon the Coast, or of Insurrection or Rebellion then existing in the Realm". Black letter press printing by J. Ferraby, Market Place, Hull. Size 10½" x 16¼". Also 1804 printed Copy of the Address & Prayer Delivered by the Rev. John Simpson ... to the Grimston Yeomanry, by the same printers. Both with central fold, the poster with a few other wrinkles and some soiling on the reverse; otherwise exceptionally fresh

Thomas Grimston 1753 - 1821. In about 1781 he began rebuilding the family house at Grimston Garth (which still exists) to the Georgian Gothic design of John Carr of York and he then divided his time between Kilnwick and Grimston Garth.
The threat of a French invasion of England loomed large during the years of the Napoleonic wars and so the bigwigs in the East Riding of Yorkshire set about raising companies of volunteers to swell the military numbers. In 1795, at a huge expence, established the Grimston Yeomanary Cavalry. He struggled to recruit enough men as there was no pay. However, for the next 20 years they charged up and down Holderness (East Yorkshire) coast looking for those demmed Frenchies. They were popular in the inns with locals for their generosity in standing the drinks

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