Auction: 13050 - Postal History and Historical documents
Lot: 2035
Historical Documents
1565 (1 Oct.) (in the reign of Queen Elizabeth), an exchequer warrant for Richard Mynstlely, signed by the Earl of Winchester. The warrant was a receipt for payment for the service of carrying Royal letters. An incomplete translation reads, "... Richard Mynstely, one of the ordinary messengers of the Queen Majesty's Chamber, asketh the allowance of riding by the commandment of the Rt. Hon. Lord High Treasurer of England from his place in London into Leicester, thence to Loughborough to my Lord Loughborough and to him delivered a writ with my Lord's letters and so returned again to London to my Lord ... I was on this journey 15 days - paid full allowd. Winchester"; some minor soiling but still in a remarkable state of preservations. Photo
The rate of pay was 2/8d. per day and the sum of £4 was to be paid
provenance: Robson Lowe Postal History auction, October 1936,
Geoffrey Owen Lockwood, February 1966
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