Live Auction 5334Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts
CROMWELL, Oliver (1599-1658). Document signed as Lord Protector ('Oliver P.'), Whitehall, 21 April 1655, an order to Gualter Frost, treasurer for the council's contingencies, to pay £6 2s 9d to Captain John Cressit, 'being soe much by him expended in rideing Post upon Our Service', one page, folio, a receipt signed by Cressit on the verso for the named sum, docketed (some foxing), window-mounted. Provenance: from collection of the Norfolk historian Charles John Palmer (1805-1888).
Lot 34

CROMWELL, Oliver (1599-1658). Document signed as Lord Protector ('Oliver P.'), Whitehall, 21 April 1655, an order to Gualter Frost, treasurer for the council's contingencies, to pay £6 2s 9d to Captain John Cressit, 'being soe much by him expended in rideing Post upon Our Service', one page, folio, a receipt signed by Cressit on the verso for the named sum, docketed (some foxing), window-mounted. Provenance: from collection of the Norfolk historian Charles John Palmer (1805-1888).

Closed13 June 2012

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CROMWELL, Oliver (1599-1658). Document signed as Lord Protector ('Oliver P.'), Whitehall, 21 April 1655, an order to Gualter Frost, treasurer for the council's contingencies, to pay £6 2s 9d to Captain John Cressit, 'being soe much by him expended in rideing Post upon Our Service', one page, folio, a receipt signed by Cressit on the verso for the named sum, docketed (some foxing), window-mounted. Provenance: from collection of the Norfolk historian Charles John Palmer (1805-1888).