GEORGE II. His Majesty's most Gracious Declaration, for the Encouragement of His Ships of War and Privateers...Given at Court St. James's, the Twenty ninth Day of March, 1744. London: Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, 1744. Broadside (484 x 385 mm.) Light toning, top edge a little worn. FIRST EDITION giving the allowances and divisions for Navy personnel of property captured from enemy vessels in the war with France. The declaration also makes a very generous allowance for privateers who wish to engage the enemy's shipping, with assurances that any goods seized will be seen as the privateers' legal property (but taxed, rather than seized by His Majesty's government).