First Earl of Anglesey Collection
Scope and Contents
Taken from note stapled to one receipt: 4 ANNESLEY, Arthur, first Earl of Anglesey (1614-1686) Two receipts, signed (‘Anglesey’), the one for £375 paid to him by Sir John James and Robert Huntington, receivers general of the excise, as a portion of his annual pension of £3,000 (1 page, quarto, laid down on card), 15 September 1673; the other for £388, being ‘the Allowance of iiijli per diem in Lieu of the Antient dyett of xvj dishes of Meate heretofore Allowed to the Keeper of his Majesties Privy Seale…’ for the quarter ended at the feast of St. Michael 1679 (½ page, folio), [1679].
Dates
- 1679
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
Southwestern University Special Collections and Archives is the owner of the physical materials in the collections and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from SU Special Collections and Archives before any publication use. Special Collections does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners. Consult repository for more details.
Biographical / Historical
Arthur Annesley, first Earl of Anglesey, born in Dublin, Ireland in 1614 . Annesley studied at Magdalen College at Oxford, graduating in 1634. He was the President of the Council of State, Treasurer of the Navy (began in 1667), and Lord Privy Seal for Charles II between 1673 and 1682. Works by Annesley include A True Account of the Whole Proceedings betwixt...the Duke of Ormond and…the Earl of Anglesey (1682), A Letter of Remarks upon Jovian (1683), The King’s Right of Indulgence in Matters Spiritual...asserted (1688), Truth Unveiled, to which is added a short Treatise on...Transubstantiation (1676), The Obligation resulting from the Oath of Supremacy (1688), England’s Confusion (1659), and Reflections on a Discourse concerning Transsubstantiation. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Altham of Oxhey, Hertfordshire and the two had seven sons and six daughters. Annesley died in 1686 in London, England.
Extent
1 folder
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection contains two receipts signed by the First Earl of Anglesey.
Arrangement
Receipts are arranged chronologically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Jackson-Greenwood
Processing Information
Lauryn Brandon, 2021
- Title
- Guide to the First Earl of Anglesey Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Lauryn Brandon
- Date
- October 26, 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the SU Special Collections & Archives Repository