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Auction: 23025 - Historical Documents, Postal History & Autographs
Lot: 137

Great Britain
King Charles II Royal Pardon of Lord North of Kirtling
1661 (3 Sept.) large Royal Letter Patent in Latin (c.690x870mm.), the portrait and border executed in pen and ink, concerning a pardon to Dudley Lord North of Kirtling, Cambridgeshire: "of all manner of treacheries, crimes, treasons, levyings of war, rebellions, insurrections, conspiracies, misprisons of treasons, murders, assaults, lying-in-wait, homicides, felonies, robberies, house-burnings, depredations, piracies, crimes, evil deeds, transgression (including sodomy and buggery) counselled, directed, attempted, made-perpetrated or committed by Lord North". Offered together with King Charles II's Great Seal, detached from the Pardon in black wax, 550mm diameter with the original cord attached, housed in a glazed box frame, and not examined out of the frame, The King is shown on horseback.
Usual soiling to outside of document otherwise very well preserved and most unusual having been executed in pencil and ink.

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