1764 SWEDISH KING ADOLPH FRIEDRICH
ROYAL PROCLAMATION

Royal announcement from the King concerning a restriction to the right of soldiers to surrender their lifetime allowance (a minimal subsistence payment paid out to professional soldiers while not on active service) in order to get it all at once (a lump sum pay-out). Soldiers were previously allowed to get all of their lifetime allowances in three to four years in order to build a house in their home village. But there had been problem with drunk soldiers harassing people in the villages and begging. Now soldiers will need a note from a judge saying that they have relatives that are willing and able to provide for them until they die, or if they are foreign and want to return to their country of birth that they have evidence that they will leave the country soon and that they have a passport.

Contents in Swedish. Condition: Very Fine Black Print Broadside on two sheets, batonne laid paper, with four pages. Text on three pages. Manuscript markings showing postal delivery through the Swedish Royal Crown Post to Löderup, Skäne, for public proclamation. Measures 155mm wide x 195mm tall folded. Upper left corner missing.

King Adolph Friedrich - Adolf Fredrik
House of Holstein-Gottorp
May 14, 1710 – February 12, 1771
Reigned (1751 - 1771)

Svensk Kronopost - Swedish Royal Crown Post
with Kronoslinga - Crown Coil (meander)

First Page

Second Page

Last Page

Post Detail:

 Crown Coil
 of the Royal Post

The wavy line (known as a meander) with two horizontal lines through it and three "crowns" in the spaces (all together known as a Crown Coil) was the indicia that this was to be sent through the Royal Swedish Crown Post. The text below indicates it was sent to a church in Löderup, in Skäne near Ystad, in the southeast of Sweden, where it was to be publicly proclaimed.

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