Political
DUTIES ON TOBACCO & SUGAR
ROCHESTER
(Laurence Hyde, 1641-1711, 1st Earl, brother-in-law of James II)
Signature as Lord High Treasurer, 1685-1687, and monogrammed seal
on the lower portion of a Treasury document, for part-payment to John Hall of £36 out of the new Imposicion on Tobacco & Sugar, by vertue of his now Ma[jes]t[ie]s L[ett]res of Privy Seale dated the 20th of June 1686, with his fine engraved portrait by Goldar after Sir Godfrey Kneller, engraved surface 11 x 7 in margins 16½ x 9¾, 1785, the document 1 side 8¼ x 3½, Whitehall Treasury Chambers, 7th July
Item Date: 1686
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Background
Rochester was a high Tory of the Court Party, and for some years was Charles II's chief adviser. At the Revolution he favoured a regency on behalf of the absent James II, but reconciled himself to William and Mary and became an adviser to the Queen. Of a strong literary bent, he prepared his father Clarendon's History for the press, prefixing it with his father's life.
lacks upper portion, two tiny defects in blank margin, faint traces of laying down
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