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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3039

Autographs
Sequestration Commissioners
1654 (6 December), "A true copy" of the original document dated 1654 (7 February). Extracts from the accounts of the Sequestration Commissioners in Northumberland for 1650, 1651 and 1652. Written on paper folded in the usual manner bearing a filing endorsement to the reverse. Signed "T Bayly" in the bottom right.


The entries concern the property of Lady Margaret Grey "Recusant" at "Spinleston & Outchester"; examined and subscribed by Daniel Hancocke, auditor. The property was let in the earlier accounts to Robert Dowdsworth and later to William Fenwick. The rent is stated, the sums received, and deductions are sometimes stated, for example "paid out in Repaires by Sr Arth: Heselriggs order 18-19-00".

Sir Arthur Hesilridge (1601-61), an English politician who sat in the House of Commons (1640-59). In the lead up to the English Civil War, Hesilridge was one of the five Members of Parliament whom King Charles I attempted to arrest in 1642.

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Estimate
£80 to £100