THREE TREASURERS AND THREE ANTIQUARIES ONSLOW (George, 1731-1814, from 1776 4th Lord), TOWNSHEND (Charles, 1728-1810, from 1797 Baron Bayning) and CORNEWALL (Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, from 1780 Speaker) Commissioners of the Treasury`

Treasury Document Signed, unusual in being complete, for £25 each to Sir Joseph Ayloffe, (1709-1781, F.R.S., Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries), Andrew Coltee Ducarel (1713-1785, Librarian at Lambeth Palace), and Thomas Astle (1735-1803, owner of the 'Stowe' MSS in the British Library), and 2 further £25 for "Clerks" and "Expences", for their work "to methodize and ... digest the papers & records of state remaining in the Paper Office at Whitehall", the ancestor of the P.R.O., with their receipt signatures on the verso, margins extended on three sides, 2 sides folio, 18th July light cancel stroke on payment, some short tears in the extended margins



Item Date:  1775

Stock No:  51413      £350

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