BIB_ID
122519
Accession number
MA 1475.13
Creator
Leicester, Robert Sidney, Earl of, 1595-1677.
Display Date
1647 Oct. 16.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1953.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 29.5 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Part of a collection of 17 documents relating to the Sidney family. Items are individually cataloged in 17 records (MA 1475.1-17); see related records for more information.
With a memorandum on p. 2 recording that Richard Winnefryde vacated the premises on 18 October 1647, signed by Mil Smyth and with Winnefryde's mark.
Part of a collection of 17 documents relating to the Sidney family. Items are individually cataloged in 17 records (MA 1475.1-17); see related records for more information.
With a memorandum on p. 2 recording that Richard Winnefryde vacated the premises on 18 October 1647, signed by Mil Smyth and with Winnefryde's mark.
Provenance
Percy Clinton Sidney Smythe, sixth Viscount Strangford and Baron Penhurst (bound with doublures bearing his arms in 1837 or later); by descent to his granddaughter Mrs. P.M. Russell (Philippa Augusta Maria Baillie Russell), and sold by her (London, Sotheby's, 30 May 1927, lot 533) to Quaritch; purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1953.
Summary
Granting the right of attorney to Thomas Beare and Robert Fuller for the purpose of seizing in the Earl's name specified properties then under occupation by others. Signed "Leyester" and with his seal.
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