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CHARLES II
Warrant signed ("Charles R" at head), granting Peter Rycaut and William Lord Widdrington, in response to their respective petitions, a share of any debts discovered by them as owing to the Crown during the Interregnum, docketed 12 July 1670

14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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CHARLES II

Warrant signed ("Charles R" at head), granting Peter Rycaut and William Lord Widdrington, in response to their respective petitions, a share of any debts discovered by them as owing to the Crown during the Interregnum : paying Rycaut in recognition of his services and sufferings of his family during "the late Unhappy Warrs" one full moiety [i.e. half] of all debts, in the hands of treasurers, commanders, receivers and other specified parties, owing to the Crown "as he should finde out or make appeare to be due to Us or the late Queene" from Michaelmas 1640 to Michaelmas 1659, with the two-thirds of the other moiety, not exceeding £10,000, of discovered debts owed to the Queen Mother, between Michaelmas 1640 and the Feast of the Assumption 1659, to be paid to William Lord Widdrington; counter-signed by Sir John Trevor, under Secretary of State, and re-addressed by him "To Our Trusty & Welbeloved Our Attorney or Sollicitor Generall", the place of issue and date being left blank; remains of printed duty-stamp, contemporary docket "Lord Widdrington... Passed here 12 July (70)", 3 pages, some wear and browning, especially at folds, traces of mounting overleaf, folio, docketed 12 July 1670

Footnotes

'THE LATE UNHAPPY WARRS' - two Royalists are rewarded for their loyalty by Charles II. Peter Rycaut was brother of the famous traveller Paul, author of The Present State of the Ottoman Empire. Their father Sir Peter Rycaut was an enormously rich merchant and financier, ruined by his loyalty to the Crown during the civil wars; his family petitioning at the Restoration that 'Sir Peter for his Services and Loyaltie ... was sequestred his houses rifled plundred and his Family turned out of doores, soe that he suffred in his Estate to the value of One Hundred Thousand Pounds' (ODNB). William, second Baron Widdrington (1631-1675), Colonel in the Foot Guards, served as Governor of Berwick from 1660 until his death. His father, the first Baron, had served the Royalist cause in both civil wars, dying in the Royalist rout at Wigan Lane in 1651. His extensive coalmines and mills were sequestered from 1646. Clarendon describes him as 'a man of great courage and choler' (ODNB).

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