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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3030

Autographs
Henry Grey
1645/46 (27 February) receipt by Henry Grey, Earl of Kent, as a Commissioner of the Great Seal for £200 received from Thomas Fauconberg, Receiver General of the Revenue. Written on paper folded in the usual manner bearing a filing endorsement to the reverse. Signed "H Kent C.S.". Witnessed by Thomas Barker.

Henry Grey (1594-1651), Earl of Kent (1643). Grey supported the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War, served as MP for Leicestershire (1640-43), was three times Commissioner of the Great Seal (1634-44, 1645-46, 1648-49), and Speaker at the House of Lords (1645-47).

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