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Auction: 23025 - Historical Documents, Postal History & Autographs
Lot: 130

Great Britain
Queen Elizabeth I
1564 (26 June) document signed "Elizabeth r", "By the Queene" at top, addressed to Valentine Browne of Berwick acknowledging that Sir Thomas Dace, late Marshall of "our town" Berwick is owed fees and allowances because of difficulties in payment until the muster might be made and taken and so Elizabeth commands Browne to pay Dacre monies "out of the Treasure in your custody" for the complete period up to Dacre ceased to be Marshall. No amount is mentioned and Dacre acknowledges receipt of "my full entitlement and allowance", signed "Thomas Dacre".
Document pasted to thin card with some typical foxing otherwise perfectly preserved and a superb example of this much coveted signature in the sixth year of her reign.

Notes: Sir Thomas Dacre (1527-66) In 1566 the bishop of Carlisle reported that "my Lord Dacre, but especially my lady his wife are to be reformed in religion", in her case at least a hope which was not fulfilled. After his death it was reported that Dacre had won the hearts of the country by his house-keeping, an achievement which may help to explain his receipt in January 1565 of a licence to alienate, during his second wife’s lifetime, lands in Cumberland, Shropshire and Yorkshire, to Thomas Carus, William Rosewell, Thomas Preston† and Lawrence Banester.

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