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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 13

(x) Documents
The Navy Office
1694 (10 October) folio letter to Anth. Bonyer Esq at Camberwell and carried "For their Maj Service" and bearing a fine strike of the Government Penny Post. Bishopsgate, Saturday triangular handstamp. The letter is a tender for supplying elm timber to Deptford and is signed by

Sir Richard Haddock (Controller of the Navy)

Edmund Dummer (Surveyor)

John Hill (extra Commissioner)

Thomas Wilshaw (Controller of the storekeepers accounts)

George St. Lo (extra commissioner)

Charles Sergisson (Clerk of the Acts)

Dennis Lyddell (Controller of the treasurers account)

Samuel Pett (Secretary)

Folding creases and some soiling along edges and folds. A rare navy document used in the reign of William and Mary (Queen Mary died of smallpox in December 1694). Photo

Sir Richard Haddock (c.1629 – 1715) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, eventually rising to the rank of Admiral in August 1690. He was knighted in 1675 Haddock was appointed Controller of the Navy on 2 February 1682, an appointment he retained until 17 April 1686. He again became Controller of the Navy on 12 October 1688, a post he held until his death on 29 January 1714.



George St Lo (1655 – 1718) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the Nine Years' War, and the War of the Spanish Succession. His career cut short by injuries, he embarked on a political career, holding offices as a commissioner of the navy and was a Member of Parliament.



Dennis Lyddell purchased Wakehurst Place in 1694



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