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Auction: 20025 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 536

Great Britain
1628-1724, an excellent collection of financial documents (35 items) ranging from receipts to warrants, orders and petitions, each with a well-researched typed description providing a fascinating financial overview of the period. Highlights include signatures of Sir Robert Long, Sir Henry Guy, Sir Robert Howard, Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Monmouth, Sir Charles Carteret. More interesting documents include 1666 application for payment for the expenses of attending the King at Oxford in the period that Parliament relocated there, 1678 order to pay William Stanstead, messenger of the King's Chamber in Ordinary and 1687 order to pay £16,000 out of a loan from Alderman Charles Duncombe

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Estimate
£1,000 to £1,500

Starting price
£800