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[004487] [Enlistment Certificate] An Irish Labourer Enlists in the British Army. London: No Publisher, 1795. First Edition. 8vo. Unbound. Ephemera. Good. Part printed part manuscript enlistment notice, approximately 160mm x 205mm in size

Lightly browned, a couple of small tears to foot, otherwise fairly clean

Enlistment certificate, of Michael Cunningham, a labourer from Dublin, here swearing that he is a “Protestant … [has] no rupture, nor ever was troubled with Fits; that I am no ways disabled by Lameness or otherwise, but have the perfect Use of my Limbs; and that I voluntarily inlisted myself … to serve His Majesty King George the Third as a private Soldier”