BIB_ID
377523
Accession number
MA 1294.1
Creator
Byron, Katherine, -1676.
Display Date
1664 Nov. 4.
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 15.9 cm
Notes
A published reference to an earlier petition on the same subject (September 1660) indicates that Sir Thomas Byron loaned King Charles I £700 for payment to the regiment of which Byron was a Colonel. The published reference indicates Katherine Byron was also petitioning for a pension for herself for work she did during the war transporting secret documents.
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
Summary
Being a petition for the repayment of £700 advanced to the late King [Charles I] by her late husband, Sir Thomas Byron.
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