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Auction: 14017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 382

An interesting handwritten Payment document, January 1616, appointing George Sturgis to receive money for the repairs to Henley Park in Oxfordshire, signed 'Montgomery', with added instruction to Mr Bingley to draw an order of Payment on the Exchequer, signed by Fulke Greville, and further added note from Mr. Bingley, an Exchequer official instructing the payment to be made 'as his honour requires', red wax seal of Earl of Montgomery, 4 pages, small format, some damp damage at top edge, fine.

Herbert Philip, Earl of Montgomery and 4th Earl of Pembroke, a favourite of James I, High Steward for Oxford; Took a keen interest in several joint stock companies and served on the Council of the Virginia Company in 1612; was one of the original incorporators of the Northwest Passage Company in 1612; and became a member of the East India Company in 1614.
Sir Fulke Greville (1554 - 1628), Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1614. Created Lord Brooke in 1621.

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