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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3022

Autographs
Sir Richard Weston
1630 (27 May) Warrant from Sir Richard Weston to Sir Robert Pye, Auditor of the Receipt, Sir Edward Wardour, Clerk of the Pells, and other officials. Written on paper folded in the usual manner, bearing a filing endorsement to the back. Signed "R. Weston". Subscribed "Irrotulatur in officio Clerici Pellium". Red wax with unclear impression in centre of page appears to be ownership mark of a collector and is not original.

The warrant was issued to levy tallies on the rent of the wine licences due at Christmas of 1631 in order to pay £1500 to the "Countess of Marleburgh", part of £3000 payable by Letters of Privy Seal dated 1629-30 (20 February), "as of his Majesties free guift". Photo



Countess of Marleburgh, probably Jane née Boteler, third wife of James Ley, Earl of Marlborough who died in March 1629 leaving her a widow.

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