| Description | Official letter to Francis Alexander Keith-Falconer, 8th Earl of Kintore, from Lord Panmure at the War Office 3 September 1857, and Royal Warrant 11 September 1857, instructing the Earl as Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire to "draw out and embody with the least possible delay the Militia Quota of the County of Kincardine" because of the urgent necessity to send regular military forces abroad in view of the Indian Mutiny. |