Administrative and legal collection: Smith College

  • Administrative and legal collection: Smith College
  • Administrative and legal collection: Smith College
  • Administrative and legal collection: Smith College

Administrative and legal collection: Smith College

Early modern administrative and legal documents from the 1600s.

Smith College: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. [Documents] (1642) (MiscMS 137)
Document, 1642 Dec. 2, at the Court at Oxford, to Henry, Marquis of Worcester, awarding him various lands, monies and honors. Charles I had made Henry Somerset the 1st Marquis of Worcester on Nov. 2, 1642 for his support in the Civil Wars.

Smith College: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. [Document] 1674 May 5, at Whitehall (1674) (MiscMS 138)
The document authorizes John Poulton, cook of the ship Mountague, at Chatham, and John Baker, cook of the ship Yorke, at Portsmouth, to "exchange employments" while the ships remain in their harbors. Also signed by "[Samuel] Pepys."

Smith College: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. [Letter] 1661 Aug. 18, Whitehall [to] Sr Ken[e]l[m] Digby (1661) (MiscMS 835)
The king promises Digby a pension of "two thousand pounds a yeare."

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