ELIZABETH I (1558-1603), Queen of England. Document signed (“Elizabeth R”), Windsor Castle, 26 September 1586. 1 page oblong folio (9 ¾ x 11 3/8in.), on vellum, fragment of white silk along left margin of recto, remnants of red wax seal, docketed on verso. With transcription. Counter-signed by James Bonde and Charles Yetsweirt.
ELIZABETH I (1558-1603), Queen of England. Document signed (“Elizabeth R”), Windsor Castle, 26 September 1586. 1 page oblong folio (9 ¾ x 11 3/8in.), on vellum, fragment of white silk along left margin of recto, remnants of red wax seal, docketed on verso. With transcription. Counter-signed by James Bonde and Charles Yetsweirt.

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ELIZABETH I (1558-1603), Queen of England. Document signed (“Elizabeth R”), Windsor Castle, 26 September 1586. 1 page oblong folio (9 ¾ x 11 3/8in.), on vellum, fragment of white silk along left margin of recto, remnants of red wax seal, docketed on verso. With transcription. Counter-signed by James Bonde and Charles Yetsweirt.

ELIZABETH FILLS A POST IN HER OFFICIAL FAMILY in this warrant addressed to Sir Thomas Henneage, Treasurer of the Queen’s Chamber, referring to Richard Mondaye to whom she has given the room of one of the grooms of her Buckhounds, “which rome Thomas Mondaye late deceased had and enjoyed with the wages and fee of six poundes thirteen shillings and foure pence by the year during his natural life,” and granting also that he “shall yearly have and enjoye the allowance of eight pounds foure shillings and ten pence for his sommer and winter lyveries,” which Sir Thomas is to pay him quarterly.

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