Letter from James II to his brother-in-law, Lawrence Hyde Finish:20-pack English general at sea

English general at sea

The sitter has short hair

the Cunard building built between 1914 and 1916 and the Port of Liverpool Building (right)

Tower Bridge (designed by Sir Horace Jones) was opened 1894

From the front cover of Picturegoer magazine (24 May 1941)

Letter from James II to his brother-in-law, Lawrence Hyde Finish:20-pack English general at seaLetter from James II to his brother in law, Lawrence Hyde, First Lord of the Treasury, late 17th century. Letter written, as Duke of York, during his retirement in Scotland at the time of the Exclusion Bill, on the untrustworthiness of the Duchess of Portsmouth, proposed changes in the Ministry, the necessity of a dissolution of Parliament, the conviction of Lord Stafford for complicity in the Popish Plot, and his own determination not to change his