MARY I (1516-1558), queen of England. Document signed ('Marye the quene'), St James's, 9 October 1558 (giving the regnal dates both for herself and for her husband, Philip II of Spain, as 'the fiveth and sixte yeres of our reignes'), letters patent to George Bredyman, 'one of the gromes of our privie chamb[e]r', a warrant to deliver 'of such o[u]r treasure as remayneth in yo[u]r custody unto o[u]r welbeloved Nycholas Brigham one of the Tellers of o[u]r Eschequire the Som[m]e of fyve thousande poundes', in English, on vellum, six lines on one membrane, 155 x 230mm, papered signet seal, docketed on verso (somewhat stained, remnants of label at lower margin), tipped onto paper. Provenance: Godspeed's Book Shop Inc, Boston, 6 April 1964.
The administrator and antiquary Nicholas Brigham (who died within a few months of the present warrant) had been an exchequer teller since 1545; he was a noted collector of medieval manuscripts, in the vernacular as well as in Latin, and in 1555 or the following year erected the memorial to Chaucer at Westminster Abbey which is essentially the founding monument of Poet's Corner.
MARY I (1516-1558), queen of England. Document signed ('Marye the quene'), St James's, 9 October 1558 (giving the regnal dates both for herself and for her husband, Philip II of Spain, as 'the fiveth and sixte yeres of our reignes'), letters patent to George Bredyman, 'one of the gromes of our privie chamb[e]r', a warrant to deliver 'of such o[u]r treasure as remayneth in yo[u]r custody unto o[u]r welbeloved Nycholas Brigham one of the Tellers of o[u]r Eschequire the Som[m]e of fyve thousande poundes', in English, on vellum, six lines on one membrane, 155 x 230mm, papered signet seal, docketed on verso (somewhat stained, remnants of label at lower margin), tipped onto paper. Provenance: Godspeed's Book Shop Inc, Boston, 6 April 1964.
The administrator and antiquary Nicholas Brigham (who died within a few months of the present warrant) had been an exchequer teller since 1545; he was a noted collector of medieval manuscripts, in the vernacular as well as in Latin, and in 1555 or the following year erected the memorial to Chaucer at Westminster Abbey which is essentially the founding monument of Poet's Corner.
![MARY I (1516-1558), queen of England. Document signed ('Marye the quene'), St James's, 9 October 1558 (giving the regnal dates both for herself and for her husband, Philip II of Spain, as 'the fiveth and sixte yeres of our reignes'), letters patent to George Bredyman, 'one of the gromes of our privie chamb[e]r', a warrant to deliver 'of such o[u]r treasure as remayneth in yo[u]r custody unto o[u]r welbeloved Nycholas Brigham one of the Tellers of o[u]r Eschequire the Som[m]e of fyve thousande poundes', in English, on vellum, six lines on one membrane, 155 x 230mm, papered signet seal, docketed on verso (somewhat stained, remnants of label at lower margin), tipped onto paper. Provenance: Godspeed's Book Shop Inc, Boston, 6 April 1964.](https://devapim.christies.com/uat/lot-images/5573319/2012/CKS/2012_CKS_05334_0028_000(mary_i_queen_of_england_document_signed_st_jamess_9_october_1558_lette_d5573319080021).jpg?maxwidth=3840)