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Auction: 19022 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 2041

Autographs
The Commissioners of Accounts (Brooke House Commissioners)
1669 (4 March) letter from the Commissioners of Accounts to Sir Robert Long, Auditor of the Exchequer Receipts relating to their investigation into a "250,000 advance to Sir George Carteret by the late farmours of his Majesties Hearth duty". Having received initial details for this payment, the Commission request of Long the "Tallyes, and orders, and every of them, by vertue whereof the 100000 (assigned by Sr George Carteret to the persons named in his Majesties sayd privy Seale) was registered & levyed uponthe addicionall Ayde, and which is to stand charged on Sir George Carteret, in lieu of the like summes of 100000, part of the said 250000, advanc't to him by the said farmours as aforesaid". Written on page with slight staining to the upper left, signed "Henry Osborn", "William Brereton", "J Langham", "J: Gregorie", "Wm: Turner", with address panel and filing endorsement on the reverse. Photo

The Commissioners of Accounts, also known as the Brooke House Commissioners, was set up to inspect the expenditure of the money granted to Charles II to fund the war against the Dutch. This document is significant in illustrating a pivotal moment in Parliamentary history, when the Commons were permitted to investigate in this manner.

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Estimate
£350 to £400