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Auction: 22066 - Historical Documents, Postal History & Autographs - Featuring the Robin Hunt Collection
Lot: 2080

(x) From the Mayflower Collection
William Juxon, Bishop of London, Lord Treasurer
A Rare 17th Century Exchequer Document for Payment of Royal Servants
1636 (28 December) warrant for payment to Sir Robert Pye, auditor of the receipt, for the payment of wages for "Gentlemen Ushers Yeomen Ushers Rangers Groome Porter, and Bedd Carriers to the Queen's Majesty ... within the space of three yeares ... the some of six hundrer and twentie pounds, twelve shillings, eight pence". Signed "Your loving friend, Guil London". Fine and rare

provenance:
Ex Rawlins

Notes: William Juxon (1582-1663), Bishop of London (1633-1646), Archbishop of Canterbury (1660-1663).

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Sold for
£270

Starting price
£150