Lot 250
Charles I -- Newark on Trent
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 26 May 2010 at 12:00 BST
Description
Original commission, on vellum, signed at head by King Charles I ("Charles R."), appointing Sir Richard Willis Knt., Governor of Newark, Robert Lord Lexonton, Sr. Gervase Clifton Knight & Baronett, Sir Gervase Scroope & others as commissioners "to hear, judge & determyne all... disputes that may or shall arise between Countrymen & Souldiers and in case of plundering, robbery, or any other violence to cause restitution to bee made, & if the offence... shall deserve corporall punishment that you represent it to the Governor who is to give order to have it speedily tryed at a Court of warr & punished accordingly" 22 lines, 380 x 215mm., 12 October, 1645, counter-signed lower right E.D.W. Walker, with note dated 21 March 1773 on the verso by Thomas Percy, stating that under this commission his great grandfather's brother, John Clieveland Esq., the celebrated poet, acted as Judge-Advocate in Newark while it was garrisoned for the King, framed and glazed, somewhat faded but entirely legible