OXFORD (Aubrey de Vere, 1627-1703, K.G., from 1632 20th and last Earl of the 1142 creation)

Clerk written receipt signed and sealed with a black armorial seal, with transcription, from "the Officers of the Tally Court" of "three Tallyes leavyed upon John Lawrence Esqe. Rec[eive]r of the First Fruites", amounting to £500, part of the £2000 pension allowed him and his [second] wife Diana by letters patent of 19th June 1673, 1 side 4to and conjugate leaf bearing short title, 6th November small defects in blank portion of conjugate leaf

The Earl was in the Dutch service as a young man. His estates were sequestrated and himself twice imprisoned as a Royalist under the Commonwealth, then went as an envoy to recall Charles II. In 1688 he joined the Prince of Orange and fought at the Battle of the Boyne.
The Countess (d. 1719) was the daughter of George Kirke, the well-known groom of the bedchamber. He bore the sword Curtana at the coronation of Charles II, and the Sword of State at the next three coronations.
At this date payments were still carefully allotted to particular funds, in this case the receipts from the first year's income of the various bishoprics.

Item Date:  1676

Stock No:  51747      £375

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