Lot 513
Parlimentarians and a Regicide. Manuscript Document Signed ("Henry Vane," "Henry Mildmay," "James Temple" and "Dennis Bond"). One and a half pages, folio, Westminster, March 5, 1643. Being a Treasury document to Thomas Fauconbridge, Provisor General. Docketed on integral leaf. Foxing, three horizontal folds with edge separation, old repairs on blank leaf, strengthening tape on recto, some edge fraying, a 1½" tear at left edge and minor pencil notations from a previous owner. Overall, condition is fair to good.
Signing as the "Committee for his Majesty's Revenue," Henry Vane, Henry Mildmay, Dennis Bond, William Ashurst and Thomas Hoyle, order Fauconbridge to pay Captain James Temple £30 for "necessary reparations" of the West Tilbury Forts. Temple has signed on the verso, on March 8, 1643: "Accounted the Sum of thirtye pounde and three shillings by me disbursed for necessarie reparations of the said fort." An interesting collection of names with the English Civil War underway: Temple signed Charles I's death warrant but escaped execution at the Restoration; Henry Vane the younger was an important administrator during the Civil War and the Protectorate (serving as Governor of Massachusetts at one point) and was executed in 1662; Henry Mildmay was a member of the Regicide Tribunal but did not attend later meetings and so was spared execution and Dennis Bond was an active politician from Dorchester.
Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,500.
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