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AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY WATERFORD COUNTY MILITIA COMMISSION WARRANT. Appointing William Bolton a Captain Lieutenant in the Troop of Dragoons commanded by Colonel Edward May, commanding officer of the Waterford County Militia, dated 18th March 1725/6, signed at top centre by the Lord Lieutenant of the day, ''Carteret'', and at bottom centre by John Anthony Balaguier, framed and glazed for display. This is the commission warrant referred to in Major O.W. Cuffe's ''Records of the Waterford Militia 1584-1885''. William Bolton of Fatlock (Faithlegg) Castle (d. 12th March 1750) was the grandson of William Bolton, a Captain in Cromwell's army, who had stormed and captured Fatlock Castle in October 1649. As a reward for his service to the Parliamentary cause in Ireland, that Captain William Bolton was given a large grant of land in Waterford, including Fatlock Castle, the family home thus being, quite literally, the spoils of war. Lot accompanied by photocopied extract from Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland re the Bolton family of Mount Bolton (affixed to reverse of frame). John Carteret (1690-1763) was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 6th May 1724 to 22nd June 1730. Greatly admired by Jonathan Swift, who produced the widely read ''Vindication of John, Lord Carteret'', he came from a royalist and high Tory background. Educated at Christchurch, Oxford, he left that institution better educated than most of the gentry of his day, taking from it, as Jonathan Swift dryly observed, ''more Greek, Latin and Philosophy than properly became a person of his rank''. Carteret's support for the Hanoverian succession in 1714 gained him rapid promotion. By 1721, he was Secretary for the South. Still only 30, and promoted beyond his years, he was actually of an age at which, as Swift observed, ''according to custom he ought to have been busy losing his money in a chocolate house''. Carteret had, however, made many enemies on his way up the political ladder, and when they turned on him his fall was as rapid as his rise. In the spring of 1724, undermined by Walpole, he was forced to resign his post, and transferred to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant, in the hope that posting him to a troubled and dangerous political backwater would put an end to his ambitions. Carteret disappointed those who wished to see him ruined. His Lord Lieutenancy was highly successful and lasted six years, during which time he did much to promote Irish interests. On arrival he inherited the problem of Woods Halfpence, Ireland in revolt against what was deemed to be a debased coinage, and widely regarded as a trick to ruin Ireland by draining it of bullion. Carteret handled the problem with considerable delicacy, going through the motions of searching for the author of the inflammatory ''Drapier's Letters'' (Swift), before backing the Irish protests and forcing his old adversary Walpole to withdraw the coinage. His Viceroyalty was one of the most successful of the 18th century, and Carteret's reward was an enthusiastic address from the Irish parliament, commending the ''unwearied .. .. and affectionate concern you have shown for the welfare of this nation''. The other signatory of this warrant, John Anthony Balaguier, was Private Secretary to Lord Carteret. The cataloguer is indebted to Pat Smith, Local Studies Dept., Waterford City Library, for his assistance in researching this commission warrant. AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY WATERFORD COUNTY MILITIA COMMISSION WARRANT. Appointing William Bolton a Captain Lieutenant in the Troop of Dragoons commanded by Colonel Edward May, commanding officer of the Waterford County Militia, dated 18th March 1725/6, signed at top centre by the Lord Lieutenant of the day, ''Carteret'', and at bottom centre by John Anthony Balaguier, framed and glazed for display. This is the commission warrant referred to in Major O.W. Cuffe's ''Records of the Waterford Militia 1584-1885''. William Bolton of Fatlock (Faithlegg) Castle (d. 12th March 1750) was the grandson of Willi