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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 2

Documents
Duchy of Lancaster
1529-33 document on vellum written to William Fitzwilliam, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster being a bill between James Standish of Duxbury and Symon Haydock for lands in Hepay (Heapy). Written in English, there are usual folding creases and some edge wear at the sides; in a good state of preservation. Photo

William FitzWilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton, KG (c.1490 - 1542), English courtier and soldier. He acted as "enforcer" for Henry in the fall of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. He was a capable Lord Privy Seal from 1540 to his death in 1542, but he failed to address serious structural faults at the Duchy of Lancaster and the Admiralty administration, probably because with several offices he was overworked - a serious fault in the Tudor system.

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