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Auction: 19022 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 2039

Autographs
The Great Plague
c.1666 application for payment of £50 from Thomas Townsend for the expense of two men, with their horses, attending the King's service at Oxford for the period Michelmas 1665 to Christmas 1666. Paper soiled and slightly torn in places, as one might expect, with filing endorsement on the reverse. An interesting fragment of parliamentary history. Photo

Between September 1665 and Christmas of 1666, parliamentary proceedings were relocated to Oxford owing to the spread of the Plague in London. This payment application gives a small insight into the great efforts undertaken to relocate parliament.

Thomas Townsend was deputy to Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich and Master of the Wardrobe.


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Estimate
£200 to £250