DOCUMENT SIGNED BY CHARLES II KING OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND (1649-1651) AND IRELAND (1660-1685)

addressed to the Attorney General and is a warrant for John Richards to be one of the Clerks of the Privy Seal "next & immediately after the determination of Our Grants now in being to Hartgill Baron, Sr. Charles Bickerstaffe Knt., John Mathews & Thomas Watkins, Clerks of Our Privy Seale in possession , or any one of them, & ye same to execute by himself or his Sufficient Deputy, for & during his naturall life together with all offices, wages, Diets, profits & Priviledges to the said Offices or either of them, belonging or any wise appertaining, in as full & ample manner, to all intents & purposes, as the now Clerks of Our Privy Seale hold & enjoy…..", signed ('Charles R') at the head, countersigned at the foot by Henry Bennet (1618-1685) 1^st Earl of Arlington, English Statesman, Secretary of State for the Southern Department 1662-74, one page, with blank integral leaf, some very light age wear and minor dust staining at the folds, folio, Court at Whitehall, 13 June 1672