WILLIAM III (1650-1702). King of England, Scotland and Ireland, and prince of Orange.
Document Signed, ('William R' at the head), 1 page folio (irrgularly torn at the left hand margin, as is usual, mounted on blue paper), Kensington, 20 November 1695. A warrant for the payment of pensions to twenty-four named individuals 'out of the Rent of the Lotteries', amounting in all to £627 10s 7½d.
Documents of this nature with lists of names are of particular historical interest. In the present example almost half of the recipients are women, sometimes cited as 'for selfe and children'. The sums payable range from £3 to £125. The names are Solomon Foubert (at the head of the list, and the recipient of the largest sum), Sir Gabriel Silvius, Susanna Leighton, Eleanor Nedham ('al[ia]s South for her Selfe and Children'), Jane Berkeley, Katherine and Mary Armstrong, William Fanshaw, Captain John Richards, Sir Charles Slingsby, Mallet Slingsby, Elizabeth Slingsby, Colonel Edmund Ogar, Colonel Henry ?Hubank, Ann Duke ('for her Selfe and Children'), Captain Baker, 'Captain Kettlebys Grandchildren', Captain Watkinson, Anne Ashbury, Anne Collins, 'Mrs Ross her 3 Daughters', 'The Wido[w] Buss', Edward Duke, John Bearcroft and Dame Hunsdon.
 Countersigned by [Sidney, first earl of] Godolphin ÿ1645-1712, first lord of the Treasury, Sir Stephen Fox (1627-1716 a Treasury commissioner) and J[ohn] Smith (1655/6-1723, politician and another lord of the Treasury).
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