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   * a 1800 version of a combined atlas/year book of western Europe.((Provenance:E.S.M-P to J. Godden)) {{:dscn3771.jpg?400|}}\\
-  * //The Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army//((Courtesy author)). This copy has his name in it ('Major Prior', 73rd regiment'). The Foreword includes a stern injunction from the Duke of Wellington, then Commander-in-Chief, that every officer had to ‘make himself perfectly acquainted’ with all the orders and regulations. When additional or revised orders and regulations were published, Thomas Prior also kept that as well, similarly describing himself as 'Major Prior', 73rd regiment'.((Provenance:E.S.M-P to J. Godden))\\
+  * //The Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army//((Provenance:E.S.M-P to J. Godden)). This copy has his name in it ('Major Prior', 73rd regiment'). The Foreword includes a stern injunction from the Duke of Wellington, then Commander-in-Chief, that every officer had to ‘make himself perfectly acquainted’ with all the orders and regulations. When additional or revised orders and regulations were published, Thomas Prior also kept that as well, similarly describing himself as 'Major Prior', 73rd regiment'.((Provenance:E.S.M-P to J. Godden))\\
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   * //Field Exercise and Evolutions of the Army//1833, inscribed 'Major Prior, 73rd regiment'.((Provenance:E.S.M-P to J. Godden)) The Forward warned officers against introducing any improvements in the exercises, adding a note from [[wp>William_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom|King William IV]] that they were required 'minutely to see that each Regiment does correctly follow His Majesty's commands, as particularly set forth'.\\