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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3044

Autographs
Various documents
1651-58 a collection of four documents including two receipts (1651, 1658), request (1657) and one warrant (1655). Each document bears original signatures and conveys information relating to a transaction of money.


For example. 1655 (6 April) Whitehall, warrant written on paper folded in four bearing a wafer seal to the top left; the paper shows signs of age. From the Council of State to Gualter Frost, Treasurer "for the Counsells Contingencyes", following an order of the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, to pay John Embree the sum of one thousand pounds on account for the cost of repairing Whiteall "and other his Highness Houses". Signed "He Lawrence Presdt", "Mulgrave", "Nath: Fiennes", "Gil Pickering", "Wal Strickland", "Phi Jones", "Ch: Wolseley".
With a receipt for £1000 signed 'John Embree' on the reverse.

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