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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3038

Autographs
Council of State
1654 (27 Jan) from Whitehall "At the Council". Order of the Council of State written up on paper folded in the usual manner with some soiling to the edges and bearing a filing endorsement to the reverse. Signed, as examined, by William Jessop, Clerk of the Council. Including an earlier collector's descriptive note. The order states: "that the Commissioners for prize goods doe satisfy all such warrants as shall be directed to them from the Commissioners for the Admiralty for any summe or summes of money given by the late Parliament to any Widdowes or Orphans who have lost their relations in the service. As also all such other warrants as shall be from tyme to tyme signed by the Commissioners for the Inspections for any moneys payable to the Commissioners for sicke & wounded men by direction of the said Commissioners for the Admiralty, any former order to the Countary notwithstanding."

William Jessop (1603-74 c.). Assistant Secretary to the Council (1653), and its clerk (1654-59). Admiralty Secretary to the Earl of Warwick (1642-45), and then Secretary to the Parliament Admiralty Commissioners (1645-53).

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Estimate
£120 to £150