Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

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VANE, Sir HENRY, the younger. Document signed by Sir Henry Vane the younger and Henry Mildmay. Secretarial document signed by Sir Henry Vane, Sir Henry Mildmay, Thomas Hoyle, and other witnesses, dated Westminster July 25, 1647, a grant of one hundred and forty-five pounds for various horses paid to one John Freeman by order of both Houses of Parliament. 11 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches (30 x 18.5 cm); a folded sheet, single page containing the parliamentary instructions, 14 lines written in brown ink in a court hand, with Freeman's signature written strongly below, and Sir Henry Vane and the other witnesses signing below that, secretarial docketing on the verso of the second leaf. Light wear, and soiling, usual folds. Framed with a portrait, not examined out of frame.

Sir Henry Vane the Younger was the fifth Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 25 May 1636-17 May 1637, and later the Joint Treasurer of the Navy, and a Member of Parliament. He held various important positions in England besides, before dying on the scaffold in June 1662. During his time in New England, he became (and remained) friendly with John Winthrop, despite their political differences. William Ireland wrote, in his The Life of Sir Henry Vane the Younger, 1905, (p. 91) that "Had he remained in New England, his enlightened mind and humane spirit would have held the Puritans back from the executions of witches and persecutions of other heretics which have added a dark chapter the early history of the States."

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