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YOUNG (ARTHUR) Letter signed ("Arth. Young"), to Davies Giddy [later Gilbert] MP, discussing the advisability of building a farm house (for Giddy's brother-in-law); the first page comprising a questionnaire on the price of beef, labour, wool, coals, freehold land, and oak timber, 3 pages, signed with a large ungainly signature in the year he went blind, address on verso, seal-tear, 4to, Bradfield, 9 October 1811--WHITELOCK (BULSTRODE) Warrant signed ("B. Whitelocke"), authorizing under the terms of the grant made by the Lord Protector's Letters Patent under the Great Seal of England to "the Provost and fellowes of Eaton Colledge" the sum of "fforty two poundes, and ffifteene poundes in lieu of Three Tonnes of Gascoigne wynes claymed by the said Colledge", one page, integral blank, contemporary dockets, bottom right-hand corner torn off with some loss of text, oblong 8vo, docketed 4 March 1655[/56] (2)
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