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Hotel Que Commerce [Image] By his excellency lieut. General De Lacy Evans, G.C.St.F. Commandant-in-chief of the British Auxiliary Legion of Spain &c &c

By virtue of the power and authority vested by Her Most Catholic Majesty the Queen of Spain in His Excellency Don Luiz Fernando Cordova, __ General-in-Chief of the Armies of Operations and Reserve__to confer on the Officers and Soldiers under his orders, the First Class of the Royal and Military Orders of St. Ferdinand and Isabel 2d, for meritorious conduct before the enemy__ and having also by virtue of the said Authority of Her Catholic Majesty power to delegate the same faculty of bestowing these Insigniae of merit to me as Commandant_ General of the British Auxiliary Legion. In virtue of the power and authority, I hereby confer on Priv J Woods  No 2 ? Rifles  the Military Order of Isabel 2nd__ for meritorious conduct generally, and gallantry during the late opperations from the 14th to the 18th May at Hernani ? & Fontevabias

Although the Diploma has not yet been received Priv. J. Woods has full permission to wear the Insigniae of the Order in Question from this date. Given at my Head__Quarters, Sansebastian By Command This 3rd day of June 183[unclear] G.F.Herman Colonel: Military Secretary [DLEvans?]