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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3033

Autographs
John Lambert
1648 (5 March) from Knottingley, Yorks WR. An order from the Parliamentary Major General John Lambert, written on paper folded in the usual manner. Signed by Lambert and endorsed with a statement witnessed by George Renold about a difference between Sir Richard Gargave and inhabitants of Wintersett over payment of coroner's fees.


The order states that Sir John 'Worsnham' and the inhabitants of Wintersett should "make choyce of two able and sufficient men to consider of and conclude the difference betwixt the said Sr John and the inhabitants of Wintersett, which now is dependeinge beetweene them touchinge assesments.", and to give a certificate to Lambert of the result agreed.

John Lambert (1619-1684), a Yorkshireman and parliamentary soldier who commanded the army in the North for the Parliament during the beginning of the Civil War (1647).

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