£750
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 605
Auction: 17 June 2020 at 11:00 BST
one page folio, 17th September 1560. The manuscript document is lacking the first few lines of text at the head (professionally repaired) although continues with six lines of full text, authorising the payment of 'fiftie oon poundies foure shillinge eight pence' for 'the cotes and conducte of two captains and three hundred soldyers' sent from Gloucester to Portsmouth. Individually signed at the conclusion by William Cecil, Ist Baron Burghley (1520-1598, English Statesman, chief advisor to Queen Elizabeth I), Francis Knollys (c.1514-1596, English Courtier, Treasurer of the Royal Household to Queen Elizabeth I), Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel (c.1511-1580, English Nobleman), Thomas Parry (c.1515-1560, Comptroller of the Household to Queen Elizabeth I), Ambrose Cave (d. 1568, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) and John Mason (1503-1566, English Diplomat and Spy), with partial integral leaf, some small tears and minor areas of paper loss at the edges and folds, not affecting the signatures