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Auction: 23025 - Historical Documents, Postal History & Autographs
Lot: 144

Great Britain
King William III
1695 (26 Feb.) warrant signed at top "William R", "To the Commissioners of Our Treaty" with integral panel reading King's Warrt For Selling Wood in Dean Forrest to sayle the Sum of £1604, 4/10d." permitting Phillip Ryles "Surveyour Generall of Our Woods on the South Side Trent" to recoup costs incurred in "Workes and Repairacons ... in Hyde Park, Parkes at Hampton Court, Falconors Lodge at Newmarket, St. James' Parke" by the "Sale of Old Hawthornes in Our Forrest of Deanes"; countersigned "Godolphin" and two other signatories.
Some paper reinforcement and reverse of folio clipped otherwise fine and rare.

provenance:
Rawlins Collection

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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£300