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Cromwell (Oliver, 1599-1658), English Statesman, politician and soldier, Lord Protector 1653-1658. Document Signed, ‘Oliver P’, 3 April 1654, manuscript warrant on vellum, appointing Samuel Style to be an ensign in a Company of Foot commanded by Captain Philip Eyton, in Sir William Constable's Regiment, fine, clear signature at head and papered seal of the Commonwealth at foot, some age soiling and original fold marks, stitch-marks to left and right margins, oblong folio (19.5 x 29.5 cm) (Quantity: 1) Provenance: The Autograph Collection of Peter Bland (1928-2003). A clerical error must have occurred during the preparation of the document for Styles’s name is written over the erased mistake, with some resultant thinning of the vellum membrane. This is repeated twice with Styles’s name on the verso, the vellum thinning from one erasure creating a small pinhead hole near the upper margin, to the right and away from Cromwell’s autograph. This document is mentioned in The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, (Clarendon Press, 1988), Volume 3, p. 239. It was sold by Maggs Bros. in 1958 (Catalogue 852, item 52), and previously in 1927 (Catalogue 497, item 2156).