£813
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Auction: 19 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT
1754, signed by Sir David Erskine, Lyon Clerk and D. Moncrieff as King's Remembrancer, 46 x 75cm., large red wax seal, 15cm in diameter, loose and slightly chipped
Note: John Campbell appears to be the 16th Thane, son of Sir Alexander Campbell Campbell, the 15th Thane, and grandson of Sir Hugh, the 14th Thane. Sir Hugh had been knighted by Charles II in 1660 at the restoration and declared for the Jacobites in 1715. Sir Alexander had died in 1697 so John, the 16th Thane, a Lord of the Admiralty and The Treasury succeeded his grandfather inherited his father's great wealth.