The Lord High Treasurer helps a Jacobean Widow Scammed by a Captain.- Cranfield (Lionel, first Earl of Middlesex 1575-1645) A petition to the Lord High Treasurer of a widow named Joan Fox who has become destitute and is living off the charity of others after lending £10 to a Captain Henry Lane who, despite having a £260 pension, has failed to repay it. Joan Fox petitions for the £10 to be repaid to her out of Captain Henry Lane's pension, Middlesex drafts a warrant to Sir Robert Pye, Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, "See it this money being lent Captain Lane in his distress, be stayd out of his next Receipt, to relieve this poore widowe in her distresse, if you find the debt truly due by him." signed "Middelsex" creasing and folds, patches of light staining, 188 x 135mm., 7th August 1623; with a portrait of Cranfield, 8vo (2)
⁂ Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, was an English merchant and politician. He sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622. In 1621 also he was appointed Lord High Treasurer and in September 1622 was created Earl of Middlesex. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
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