Request for warrant for payment from Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, Wallingford House, to Sir Robert Howard, Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer [manuscript], 1675 July 16.

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Request for warrant for payment from Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, Wallingford House, to Sir Robert Howard, Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer [manuscript], 1675 July 16.

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In pursuance of a warrant under the royal sign manual to pay £50 to Mary Betts, executrix of Sir John Webster, deceased, for defraying his funeral expenses. Signed by Leeds.

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Leeds, Thomas Osborne, Duke of, 1631-1712

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Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby (1631/32-1712), son of a Yorkshire baronet, entered Parliament as member for York in 1661, served Charles II in a series of adminstrative positions, and was made Lord High Treasurer and Earl of Danby in 1674. In 1678, he pressed for the investigation of the Popish Plot, but the Commons impeached him in December of that year for his involvement in the French "subsidies" to Charles II. Released from the Tower in 1684, Danby supported William III and was rewarded with ...

Betts, Mary, fl. 1675

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Webster, John, d. ca. 1675

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England and Wales. Exchequer

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Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698

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English poet and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to "Charles", 1675 Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269530354 The country gentleman was never printed or publicly performed. From the description of Copy of The country gentleman, ca. 1668 [manuscript], ca. 1695. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 664736486 Auditor of the exchequer. From the description of Check signed : [np.], 1697 Dec...