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Auction: 14017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 380

An interesting and very early manuscript payment order dated 1588, authorising the expenditure of £147 from the privy purse for “special causes” in the service of the Queen, signed by Sir Edward Stafford and Sir Francis Walsingham, some amateur repairs, fine and rare.

Sir Francis Walsingham (1532 - 1590), statesman and politician. Ambassador to Paris from 1570, Principal secretary to the Queen from 1573. Best remembered as her 'spymaster'.
Sir Edward Stafford (1552-1605), a diplomat and son of Lady Dorothy Stafford; friend and Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth. Stafford secured his first royal appointment in 1578 and was sent to Catherine de Medici to negotiate a union between Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou. He was knighted in 1583 and became ambassador at Paris until 1590.

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