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Auction: 15037 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 16

Documents
Appointment of William Lancaster as Provost of Queen's College, Oxford
1706 (5 Feb.) folio of eight pages featuring an engraved vignette showing the Sheldonian Theatre to front and two large vignettes to text and engraved vignette to rear. Privately printed by William Lancaster and numbered '20' in manuscript to top right corner. Size 8½" x 13¼". Horizontal folding crease and slight soiling to the outside of the covers. Photo

William Lancaster, 1650 - 1717, was an English churchman, associate of John Evelyn and as well as Provost of Queens College was for four years Vice-chancellor at Oxford. His arms are conspicuous in many places in the college

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