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Auction: 19022 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 2016

Autographs
Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex
1623 (August c.) petition written on paper and mounted on card, of Thomas Bayley to Lionel Cranfield, signed by Lionel Cranfield. In this petition, Bayley begs of Cranfield to aid in receiving "odd monie" of £5 owed to him by one 'Bagnall'. Bayley appears to be in great need of the money " it being a greate parte of his poore estate, having a wife and manie Children to mainteine" and has been met with difficulty in extracting the money from Bagnall who changed his lodging to "an unknowne place". Cranfield's sympathy appears to have been gained as he instructed Sir Robert Pye to "take some courese with Mr. Bagnall, at his next receaving of money out of ye Escheqr, to pay this poore man ...". Photo

Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex and Lord High Treasurer, merchant and politician (1575 - c.1645). Notable also for the fact that his collections became part of the Sackville Papers, formerly at Knowle and now largely deposited in the Kent Archives Office.


Sir Robert Pye, Remembrancer of the Exchequer (1585-1662). Both he and his brother Sir Walter Pye, Attorney of the Court of Wards, attacked the Treasurer in 1624. Robert Pye supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War and garrisoned his mansion at Farringdon only for it to be besieged by his own son, Robert who supported the Parliamentary cause.

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