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Auction: 17020 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 815

Autographs
Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
1586 (24 June) an instruction on laid paper, signed "Hunsdon" that Gomer van Oosterwyck was still one of the musicians of Queen Elizabeth and should be paid according to the terms of the royal grant. Sent from the court at Greenwich. Fine. Photo

Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (1526 – 1596), was an English nobleman and courtier. He was the patron of Lord Chamberlain's Men, William Shakespeare's playing company. The son of Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne Boleyn, he was a cousin of Elizabeth I. Since his mother was also a mistress to King Henry VIII of England, some historians have speculated that he might have been an illegitimate child of Henry VIII. He was Captain General of the Forces and made Lord Chamberlain the following month

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