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Auction: 17020 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 840

Autographs
Queen's Messenger
1707 (16 August) letter from Robert Harley, "To all Governors, Mayors, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, Constables and all others whom it may concern, Greetings. These are in He Majtys Name to will and require you to permit and suffer the bearer Mr John Clark & Thomas Smith his servant with their goods and necessarys freely and quickly to go hence to Deal, and to return without Lett, Hindrance or Molestation whatsoever. This pass to remain in force for three weeks and no longer. Given at Whitehall the sixteenth day of August 1707", signed "Ro Harley" with wafer seal and two albino embossed tax 6d. stamps. Usual folding creases; fine and a good document of this important office. Photo

Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1661 – 1724) was a British politician and statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. At this time he was Secretary of State for the Northern Department

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