LS signed “Your affectionate friend, James,” one page, 8.25 x 11.75, August 24, 1663. Letter to the Earl of Teviot, as Lord High Admiral. In part: "I am informed that Major Fairbourne hath leave from you for four months absent from his charge at Tanger. I direct…that you would add two moths time more to it." In very good to fine condition, with creasing, soiling, toning, and seal-related paper loss to the integral address leaf. Accompanied by an engraved portrait of the king. King Charles II acquired the Moroccan city of Tangier as part of the dowry when he married the Portuguese infanta Catherine, and occupied the critical north African port with English troops. Andrew Rutherford, 1st Earl of Teviot, was a Scottish soldier sent to North Africa in 1663 to serve as governor of Tangier; he was ambushed and killed in the Battle of Tangier in 1664.
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