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Auction: 19022 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 2015

Autographs
Marchamont Needham
c.1621 bill written on paper folded in the usual manner from Marchamont Needham for various legal expenses. Signed by Sir Henry Hobart, Sir James Fullerton, Sir Oliver Cromwell, Sir Richard Smyth, Sir Thomas Trevor, and at the bottom by Needham as a receipt for the £10. Expenses includes; "a lease made to Sr. Adam Newton of certain lands which were for securitie of moneys &c." Another lease to "Sr. Richard Smtih for ye like purpose Five Breefs of ye Cause in Starchamber against ye palebreakers at Berkhamstead ..."
A commission to "Sr. Robert Carey and others to survey ye wardrobe at Denmark House.". Photo

Marchamont Needham (-1621), father of the journalist of the same name who became renowned for his involvements with Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1653 until his death after having signed King Charles I's death warrant. Cromwell's uncle of the same name gives his signature to this document.


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