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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. Seven letters and documents, temp. Elizabeth I, comprising:
William Cecil, 1st Baron BURGHLEY. Autograph note signed ('W. Burghley') to Mr Petre (a treasury official), n.d. [?1581], directing him to pay £104 to SIR WALTER RALEGH out of 'the warrant for Irland wh[ich] you shall have to morrow', three lines on a fragment, approx 160 x 160mm (torn at left margin);
Robert Dudley, Earl of LEICESTER. Letter signed ('R. Leycester') to Hugh Fortescu and Antony Monck, Camp before Doesburg, 2 September 1586, concerning the 'benefitt and welldooing' of his young kinsman Robert Bassett, and referring to the 'incredible charge and expenses' of his command in the Netherlands (written on the day that Doesburg surrendered), one page, folio;
with documents signed by Leicester's widow Lettice, Countess of Leicester (two receipts, 1605 and 1617), Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (a payment order, 8 December 1812, on a fragment) and Sir John Fortescue (1599) and letter by one John Bradshaw, 24 February 1600/01, mentioning the recent treason trial of the Earls of Essex and Southampton and giving a list of the jury. (7)
William Cecil, 1st Baron BURGHLEY. Autograph note signed ('W. Burghley') to Mr Petre (a treasury official), n.d. [?1581], directing him to pay £104 to SIR WALTER RALEGH out of 'the warrant for Irland wh[ich] you shall have to morrow', three lines on a fragment, approx 160 x 160mm (torn at left margin);
Robert Dudley, Earl of LEICESTER. Letter signed ('R. Leycester') to Hugh Fortescu and Antony Monck, Camp before Doesburg, 2 September 1586, concerning the 'benefitt and welldooing' of his young kinsman Robert Bassett, and referring to the 'incredible charge and expenses' of his command in the Netherlands (written on the day that Doesburg surrendered), one page, folio;
with documents signed by Leicester's widow Lettice, Countess of Leicester (two receipts, 1605 and 1617), Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (a payment order, 8 December 1812, on a fragment) and Sir John Fortescue (1599) and letter by one John Bradshaw, 24 February 1600/01, mentioning the recent treason trial of the Earls of Essex and Southampton and giving a list of the jury. (7)
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