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Lord High Treasurers. A group of 4 documents with autographs of Lord High Treasurers of England and Great Britain, 1679-1722, the first a Document Signed, ‘Latimer’, Wallingford House, 15 May 1679, being a manuscript warrant on paper for the payment of £300 to Sir Stephen Fox, a little spotting and soiling, small corner tear with blank paper loss lower right, 1 page with integral docketed blank, oblong 8vo, hinged onto card mount with old tape; a partial paper warrant, dated 24 June 1693, bearing the signatures of three Lords of the Treasury, Richard Hampden, Stephen Fox and Charles Montagu, cropped at left margin not affecting signatures, 11 x 29.5 cm, laid down on a larger sheet of paper with old ink notes in the left margin; a folded manuscript vellum indenture concerning land in Samford Peverell, Devon, 2 July 1722, signed by one of the parties, 1st Earl of Poulett at foot with appended red wax seal; plus autographs of ‘Godolphin’ and ‘H. Boyle’ on a treasury document fragment, 1704, 105 x 60 mm, laid down (Quantity: 4) Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, Viscount Latimer (1632-1712), Lord High Treasurer, 1673-1679. Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1694-1699, First Lord of the Treasury, 1714-1715; Richard Hampden (1631-1695), Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1690-1694; Stephen Fox (1627-1716), Commissioner of the Treasury, 1679-1702. John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett (c. 1668-1743), Lord High Treasurer, 1710-1711. Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (1645-1712), Lord High Treasurer, 1684-1685, 1690-1697, 1700-1701 & 1702-1710; Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton (1669-1725), Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1701-1708, Commissioner of the Treasury, 1697-1702.