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Auction: 20128 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World e-Auction
Lot: 100

Great Britain: A manuscript payment order for the sum of £250, being half years payment of the £500 annual pension awarded by Royal Letters Patent to the Countess of Brainford, dated the last day of August 1671. Handsigned by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, 1621-1683, founder of the Whig party, one of 12 members of Parliament sent to Holland to invite Charles II to return to England. Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1661-1672, and, Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, 1630-1673, created for his suggestion that the King stop Exchequer payments for one year. Lord High Treasurer 1672-1673. We assume that the pension was given on the death of her husband the Earl of Brainford, a former General of his Majesty's Forces during the Civil War. Some staining but a rare interesting document.

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