Letter from Prince William, Duke of Cumberland to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

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Concerns his sympathies with the 4th Duke about his resignation from his post as Lord Chamberlain: "I must pitty the poor young King that has bereft himself of the most usefull and zealous subject for the present through the instigation of the most dangerous and wicked advisers ever young King had". Written from Cumberland House. Signed: "William".

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