Pilgrim Fathers
Winslow (Edward), A manuscript document signed by members of The Committee for Sequestration and Advancement of Money and for Compounding with Delinquents, dated 17th March 1651. The Committee, meeting at Haberdashers Hall, discharges its earlier assessment of Oliver Saul of Penrice in Cornwall to pay £200. Among the six signatories is Edward Winslow, a leader of the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed on The Mayflower to New England in 1620. Attached to the document by wax seal is a manuscript certificate signed by Martyn Dallison on the same day, which is referred to in the main document. The remains of a third sheet is present.
Sheet sizes 30cm x 18.5cm and 29.5cm x 18.5cm, loss to lower corner of first sheet with partial loss of one signature (not Winslow's).
[Edward Winslow (1595-1655) was a governor of the Plymouth Colony and founder of Marshfield. His second marriage in May 1621 was the first English marriage in New England. He returned to England several times as agent of the colonies and in 1624 published a history of the settlement 'Good Newes from New England ...'. On one visit to England in 1635, he was imprisoned by Archbishop Laud for preaching and solemnising marriages in New England as a layman. He returned finally to England in 1646. He was appointed a member of the Committee for Compounding and in April 1650 joined the board of 'The Committee for Sequestration ....., at a salary of £300. He accompanied, as a Civil Commissioner, Cromwell's expedition against the Spanish in the West Indies. During the expedition he died of fever and was buried at sea with a 42 gun salute]
[Provenance: Roger Collicott, 2010. Catalogue 84, item 111 with accompanying letter from the bookseller identifying previous owner and vouching for authenticity]