Document signed by William Laud (Archbishop of Canterbury), John Montague, Earl of Manchester (Lord Privy Seal), Francis Cottingham, Baron Cottingham (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and Francis Windebank (Secretary of State and Joint Postmaster General), to the Countess of Nottingham, regarding payment of an annual pension of six hundred pounds for her lifetime, mentioning payments owing and ordering "Tallies to be strucken from time to time for the payment of said pension", with papered seal, docketed on verso, one page on a bifolium, dust staining particularly to verso where folded and exposed, adhesive marks where previously affixed to album, folio (295 x 205mm.), Whitehall, 8 June 1635

Footnotes

Margaret Stewart, Countess of Nottingham (c.1591-1639) was the daughter of James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray. After the Union of 1603 she served as a lady-in-waiting to Anne of Denmark and in September of that year became the second wife of the much older Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1536-1624), Lord High Admiral and victor over the Spanish Armada under Elizabeth I. The marriage, seen an allegory of the union of England and Scotland, prompted much chatter among the court, with Anne writing to her husband King James I that it was a match between Mars and Venus. On her marriage she was given Chelsea Place and the annual pension of £600 mentioned here. Her brother was the sailor and patron of Ben Jonson, Sir Frances Stuart, and she married for a second time to the Regicide William Monson, 1st Viscount Monson.

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