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Auction: 13050 - Postal History and Historical documents
Lot: 2051

Historical Documents
King Charles II
1667 (13 June) a royal warrant appointing "Horatio Lord Townshend" to be Colonel of a regiment of foot, consisting of ten companies, each of 100 men, closes with "By His Majesty's Command" and signed "Arlington". Signed by the king at top, "Charles R" and with wax wafer seal impressed with the king's coat of arms. Usual folding creases but fresh and fine. Photo

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685). His father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War. Although the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II King of Great Britain and Ireland in Edinburgh on 6 February 1649, the English Parliament instead passed a statute that made any such proclamation unlawful. England entered the period known as the English Interregnum or the English Commonwealth, and the country was a de facto republic, led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell defeated Charles II at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, and Charles fled to mainland Europe. Cromwell became virtual dictator of England, Scotland and Ireland, and Charles spent the next nine years in exile in France, the United Provinces and the Spanish Netherlands.

A political crisis that followed the death of Cromwell in 1658 resulted in the restoration of the monarchy, and Charles was invited to return to Britain. On 29 May 1660, his 30th birthday, he was received in London to public acclaim.

Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (1618 – 28 July 1685) was an English statesman.

Horatio Townshend, 1st Baron Townshend and 1st Viscount Townshend 14 December 1630 – 10 December 1687), known as Sir Horatio Townshend, 3rd Baronet, of Raynham, from 1648 to 1661, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1656 and 1660 and was raised to the peerage in 1661.

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