Osborn fa18

          47 letters and papers from the office of the exchequer. England;
     1554-1706. Paper (one document on parchment); 86 ff.; up to 340 x 245
     mm.

          Various cursive scripts. Many of the letters include seals. Bound
     in Middle Hill Boards, spine missing.

          Sir Thomas Phillipps MS. (unnumbered)

          Comments: These letters are mostly from the Elizabethan and
     Jacobean period and derive from the papers of Robert Petre, Auditor for
     the Exchequer, and his colleague Vincent Skinner. They include claims
     for expenses, wages, benefits, etc, including a detailed account for a
     banquet held 15 November 1561, signed by the Marquis of Winchester and
     Sir Walter Mildmay; Claim for Allowances (1563) by Sir Thomas Chaloner,
     Ambassador to Spain, with autograph note signed and sealed by him at
     the end; L.S. (1578) by Lord Burgley about money to be sent to Ireland
     and mentioning Sir Philip Sidney; A.L.S. (1597) by George, Lord
     Hunsdon, about the payment of the engineer appointed for the defense of
     the Isle of Wight; A.L.S. (Chester, 11 Aug. 1601) by the antiquary and
     mathematician Edward Brerewood to the Privy Council about the accounts
     of his father the late Mayor of Chester. Other signatures by Sir George
     Howard (1554), Owyn Hopton, Lieutenant of the Tower of London (1578),
     Thomas Wright, Master Gunner of Ostend (1599), Thomas Smith, Sheriff of
     Chester, and others about the delivery of soldiers in Ireland (1600),
     Sir John Gilbert, Governor of Portsmouth Fort (1601), Sir Francis
     Godolphin, Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall (1603), Countess
     of Kildare (1603), Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, Sir Thomas
     Egerton, Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, Cornelius Holland, Denis
     Bond, and others.


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