Catalogue description Folios 263-264. Folio 263. Letter from Arthurus Hibernicus Kilkeniensis [?Arthur the...

Folios 263-264. Folio 263. Letter from Arthurus Hibernicus Kilkeniensis [?Arthur the Irish man of Kilkenny] to the King beginning 'It's with the utmost concern I hear the whole system of your conduct with respect to the affront put upon your illustrious sister of Denmark, anatomized by a Parcel of Frog devouring Rascals; nay did I not often take up the cudgels, tho[ugh] in manifest violation of their laws and danger of my life and silence the impertinent Ranevoraces by applying a little shelala [shillelagh i.e. Irish cudgel] balsam to their temples, your Majesty's reputation would be torn to such imperceptible atoms that the best optician in Christendom could scarcely furnish us with a glass capable of reflecting the least ray of it'. He continues in very high flown language, asks 'have we no Marlboroughs, no Granbys or are they all turned Byngs?, praises Lord Sandwich and expresses a wish that a fleet might be sent to Denmark 'with a parcel of brave fellows well affected to the cause, to batter down Elsineur [Elsinor] and make Copenhagen feel the vengeance of English resentment'. [Caroline Matilda, sister of George III, was arrested 16/17 January 1772 and taken to Kronborg Castle. In April she was imprisoned in Elsinore and on 28 May 1772 was sent into exile by her husband Christian VII of Denmark-Norway to Celle in Hanover]. Folio 264. Note in pencil on a slip of paper '?1772 Queen Matilda was committed to prison in Jan 1772. She died in 1775'