Notification of a Grant to Colonel William Congreve.

Copy of the original notification of the Prince Regent’s pleasure for the grant of a pension of £1,200 per annum to Colonel, now Sir, William Congreve, in remuneration of his invention of rockets, dated 5 April 1814. Ordered printed by the House of Commons, 25 May 1815. British parliamentary papers of this period are rare; provision for sale to the public was not made until 1836.