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Auction: 8026 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 300

† Warrant from James I to the Treasurer and Chamberlains of the Exchequer, to pay out of the Exchequer Receipt to John Fenwick £200 ´for certen service by him done´. Given ´under our privy seals´ at Greenwich, 30th March 1605, signed by Chidiock Wardour and Thomas Clerke, manuscript document on vellum, some folds and suface somewhat grubby Estimate £ 200-250 Chidiock Wardour (d1611), purchased the office of Clerk of the Pells in 1570; thereafter the office became virtually hereditary in his family for a century. He engaged in a long internal conflict with Vincent Skinner. writer of the tallies, in order to increase the profits of his office; the story of which is detailed in G.R.Elton, The Elizabethan Exchequer: war in the Receipt, pp. 213-248 in S.T.Bindoff et al., edd., Elizabethan Government and Society, 1961. ´´The means by which Wardour won his victory are also highly significant. His arguments depended on distant and selected precedents, amalgamated into bad history; yet against them the voice of sense and good history, which Skinner kept trying to use, availed nothing. ´´(p.247)

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