SMYTH
(Dame Ethel, 1858-1944, Composer and Suffragette) and Alfred BARKER (1894-1959, Violinist, studied with Adolph Brodsky
Both their signatures on an album leaf,
with the date, 7½" x 5½", no place
Item Date:
1932
Stock No:
41010
£65
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TREASURY PAYMENT TO THE PRINCESS DOWAGER OF WALES, WIDOWED MOTHER OF GEORGE III
SYDNEY
(1st Viscount, Thomas Townshend, 1733-1800, Home Secretary under Pitt, Sydney Australia named after him), GEORGE ONSLOW (1731-1814, from 1776 4th Lord) and William DOWDESWELL (1721-1775, MP, leader of the Rockingham Whig faction)
Treasury Document Signed, unusual in being complete, being an Authority to pay
"unto her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, or to her Treasurer for the time being, the Sum of Two Thousand five hundred pounds without account other than such as the said Treasurer may be required to render thereof, to the auditor of the said Princess, the sum being for One Quarter of a year ended the 5th day of Aprill 1766. On the yearly Sum of Ten thousand pounds payable to her said Royal Highness ...", and with an instruction to Townshend to "pay this Order out of Duty on Brandy ..." receipted as paid on the verso and signed by her Treasurer Samuel MARTIN, 2 sides folio, no place, 12th April
slightly trimmed on left hand edge
Item Date:
1766
Stock No:
41001
£475
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