Political
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
Item Date: 1775
light cancel stroke on payment, some short tears in the extended margins
Stock No. 51413