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Auction: 17020 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 820

Autographs
The Army in the Netherlands
1596 (August and September) a two page document neatly written on laid paper being a list of the accounts of payment to the forces, headed "A briefe note of the weekely payments to her maiesties fforces in the Lowe Countreyes for two moneths to begyn the fowerth of August 1596 and to the end of xxviij th of September next following". The list begins with the Council of Estate followed by the different groups of officers and locations and numbers of soldiers and lancers under their different commands. The total payment are made as £7677 17s 4d. and is signed "Thomas Shirley". The document has been folded into four and the cover is soiled, however, two endorsements can be seen, the first being a title of contents and underneath appears to be the signature "Burghley" and probably represents the instruction to pay. It is possible that these two pages are from two different accounts. A fascinating military document illustrating the expense of keeping and army, even a limited one, overseas. Photo

Sir Thomas Shirley (c.1542 – 1612) of Wiston in Sussex, was an English Member of Parliament, government official and courtier. At this time he was Treasurer-at-War to the English forces serving in the Netherlands


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