Letter from Charles II’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Prizes to make the payment of £200 salary to Alderman Thomas Cale [manuscript] : autograph manuscript signed, 1666 September 19.
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Letter from Charles II’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Prizes to make the payment of £200 salary to Alderman Thomas Cale [manuscript] : autograph manuscript signed, 1666 September 19.
Created/published
[London] : Printed by Samuel Roycroft, printer to the Honourable City of London, 1666.
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Associated name
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683, sender.
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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FAST ACC 271829 (flat)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The James B. Sitrick Acquisitions Endowment Fund. From dealer's description: "Ashley authorises Richard Kingdon, Cashier General for Prizes to make the payment of £200 salary to Alderman Thomas Cale as 'Storehousekeeper of Prizes in ye Port of Bristoll and its District determining at ye Late Prize Office there', by Warrant of His Majesty's Principal Commissioner for Prizes and Lord Arlington, Controller of Prizes. Signed and sealed 19th September, 1666. Signed by Ashley and receipted on verso by Tho. Cale. A fine attractive document from the month of the Great Fire of London. Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1621-1683, created Lord Ashley by Charles II in 1661 when he also became Chancellor of the Exchequer, and then the first Earl of Shaftesbury in 1672 when he relinquished the post. Richard Kingdon was appointed by Ashley as one of His Majesty's Commissioners & Governors of Excise of London, Middlesex and Surrey, just ten days after this document was signed, on 29th September. 'Prizes', captured ships, were Crown property, and a proportion of the value was distributed to captain and crew of the captors." Ordered from Jarndyce, D 9279, 2019-02-01, Cat. Books & Pamphlets,1505-1833, item #45