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Auction: 13050 - Postal History and Historical documents
Lot: 2046

Historical Documents
Lord Fairfax
1649 (20 Nov.) letter on vellum, signed "Fairfax" and headed, "Thomas Lord Fairfax, Lord General for all the Land Forces under the pay of the Parliament in England & Wales and in the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey". The letter appoints one Henry Frieren as storekeeper to the Garrison of Yarmouth. The upper left corner is missing, but this does not affect the text, typical folding creases and age faults but still in a good state of preservation. Mounted on paper between board. By provenance of descent in the family, the book plate is "fairfax.of.cameron"

Sir Thomas, Lord Fairfax (1612-1671) was the leading Parlianentarian general of the First and Second Civil Wars and Lord-General of the New Model Army

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