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Auction archive: Lot number 47

Printed Books, Maps & Documents

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,292 - US$1,938
Price realised:
£1,050
ca. US$1,357
Auction archive: Lot number 47

Printed Books, Maps & Documents

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,292 - US$1,938
Price realised:
£1,050
ca. US$1,357
Beschreibung:

Original manuscript payment order by Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), British Prime Minister, Whitehall, March 7, 1723, manuscript in brown ink on cream laid paper, signed by Walpole, and additionally signed by Charles Turney and R. Edgcumbe, ordering the payment of 64 to Jonathan Forward of London, Merchant, 'For the Allowance of Four Pounds per head for and upon Sixty six Malefactors who were lately lying in Newgate in the City of London under Sentence of Transportation. Which said Malefactors were received by order of the said Jonathan Forward on board the ship Anne Captain Thomas Wrangham Comr: to be transported to His Mats Plantacons in America, some marks and minor stains, some light creases where previously folded, laid down,sheet size 38 x 24 cm, later framed, glazed The transportation of British convicts to the colonies in America and the West Indies first began in 1617, having been authorised by James I in 1615, but ceased to function by the end of the 17th century due to objections by the colonies themselves and the plantation owners. Consequently, an Act of Parliament was passed in 1718 'for the more effectual transportation of felons', and the first contract between the Treasury and a London agent was established in the same year with Jonathan Forward, a London merchant (as named in the present document). The 66 convicts, of whom apparently 29 were women would have been transported to Carolina or Virginia. The ship Anne had been a slaver from 1717 to 1720, and conditions on board would have been miserable (See Walter Blumenthal, Brides from Bridewell, 1962, pages 19-25). The present document would originally have been accompanied by a certificate containing the lists of prisoners to be taken from Newgate. (1)

Auction archive: Lot number 47
Auction:
Datum:
10 May 2017
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
Beschreibung:

Original manuscript payment order by Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), British Prime Minister, Whitehall, March 7, 1723, manuscript in brown ink on cream laid paper, signed by Walpole, and additionally signed by Charles Turney and R. Edgcumbe, ordering the payment of 64 to Jonathan Forward of London, Merchant, 'For the Allowance of Four Pounds per head for and upon Sixty six Malefactors who were lately lying in Newgate in the City of London under Sentence of Transportation. Which said Malefactors were received by order of the said Jonathan Forward on board the ship Anne Captain Thomas Wrangham Comr: to be transported to His Mats Plantacons in America, some marks and minor stains, some light creases where previously folded, laid down,sheet size 38 x 24 cm, later framed, glazed The transportation of British convicts to the colonies in America and the West Indies first began in 1617, having been authorised by James I in 1615, but ceased to function by the end of the 17th century due to objections by the colonies themselves and the plantation owners. Consequently, an Act of Parliament was passed in 1718 'for the more effectual transportation of felons', and the first contract between the Treasury and a London agent was established in the same year with Jonathan Forward, a London merchant (as named in the present document). The 66 convicts, of whom apparently 29 were women would have been transported to Carolina or Virginia. The ship Anne had been a slaver from 1717 to 1720, and conditions on board would have been miserable (See Walter Blumenthal, Brides from Bridewell, 1962, pages 19-25). The present document would originally have been accompanied by a certificate containing the lists of prisoners to be taken from Newgate. (1)

Auction archive: Lot number 47
Auction:
Datum:
10 May 2017
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
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