Catalogue description Folios 47-50. Letter to Evan Nepean, Under-Secretary, Home Office, from [Colonel]...

Folios 47-50. Letter to Evan Nepean, Under-Secretary, Home Office, from [Colonel] Wellbore [alias Welbore] Ellis Doyle at Cowes, Isle of Wight, asking for an order that Irish recruits to his brother's regiment [87th (or Prince of Wales's Irish) Regiment of Foot] already passed in Ireland may be passed without further examination. The imminent arrival of 200 men at Hilsea Barracks [Portsmouth, Hampshire] would complete the regiment, whereupon Major-General Trigge would inspect it. Enclosed is a letter to Lieutenant-Colonel John Doyle from Lord Amherst, Commander-in-Chief, giving orders for the local examination of recruits in Dublin and Cork conditional upon Doyle taking credit only for men actually embodied when the regiment was assembled for service in the islands of Jersey and Guernsey.