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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 10

Documents
Oliver Cromwell
1658 (31 March) manuscript document on paper to the Commander in Chief stationed "in the Downs".


"Trusty and Beloved we greet ye well. Whereas two vessels sailing this ... and this ... are designed for fflorida and ... of being importance to our service in America. We would have you to appoint ... of our shippes that may for a tyme be best spared from your squadron and that it is of ... tho said two vessels into its charge and convey the about one hundred and fifty ... from the Lands End and thath performed to pursiut your further orders for our service and to give the Commander full instructions in that behalf. Given at Whitehall the 11th day of March 1665".



Boldly signed at top "Oliver P" in a rather shaky signature a few months before his death. He has also written the day of the month, "31th". Mounted on card, this document has been professionally restored. Photo

Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.


England's American colonies in this period consisted of the New England Confederation, the Providence Plantation, the Virginia Colony and the Maryland Colony. However, the terms America also included the island of Jamaica

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