?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
IN THE WAKE OF ENGLAND'S CIVIL WARS CROMWELL, OLIVER. Vellum Document Signed, "Oliver P," as Lord Protector, nominating Richard Mayhew "to the Commissioners authorized by a late Ordinance for Approbation of Public Preachers . . . In order to his being admitted and appointed as Public Preacher [in the Rectory of Iken in the County of Suffolk], and to officiate and take upon him the Cure of aforesaid Rectory . . . ." 10 1/2x11 inches; minor fading to scattered parts of text but signature is bold, minor scattered soiling, folds, docketing verso, few tiny marginal holes, paper seal mostly intact. Whitehall, 19 May 1657
