Lot 2040 , Sign-manual warrant of Charles I to Sir William Uvedale, Treasurer of the Privy Chamber, to restore a pension of £50 to [the king’s cup-bearer] Edward Ellis; Whitehall, 14 May 1627

Sign-manual warrant of Charles I to Sir William Uvedale, Treasurer of the Privy Chamber, to restore a pension of £50 to [the king’s cup-bearer] Edward Ellis; Whitehall, 14 May 1627 Despite the restraint of all pensions in the Privy Chamber made by the Commissioners of the Crown’s revenues
Provenance: purchased at Sotheby’s sale of valuable printed books fine bindings autograph letters and historical documents, 23rd October 1967

Edward Ellis (c1590-1656) was the fourth son of Edward Ellis of Chesterton in Cambridgeshire, esquire, and grandson of Lyon Ellis, mayor of Lincoln. His father, who died in 1596, was a fellow of St John’s Cambridge in 1567, was admitted to Gray’s Inn in 1574 and as a barrister in 1577.
His mother was Jane, daughter of Thomas Stoteville, of Brinkley in Cambridgeshire, esquire (died 1631). Having borne six sons and three daughters, following the death of her first husband (who left her his rights to Chesterton Ferry for life), Jane married Othowell Hill, DCL, Chancellor of the diocese of Lincoln, who was buried in Lincoln Cathedral 19 May 1616. She died 27 April 1631 in her 78th year and was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey.
Edward Ellis was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge in 1605, served as gentleman-waiter to King James I, and cup-bearer to King Charles I. In 1625-1626 it was certified that he was liable for taxation in the royal household, and not in London or Westminster, the previous area of tax liability. He made his will at Windsor in 1656, asking to be buried near his mother at Westminster. His many bequests included a gold ring to Mr Haddar, gentleman usher to ‘our late king Charles’, and a considerable sum ‘to be distributed to the late king’s poor servants’. He died unmarried and was buried at Westminster Abbey on 14 October 1656.
Sir William Uvedale (1581-1652) of Wickham in Hampshire and Whitehall, MP for Portsmouth, Newport Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Petersfield at various dates between 1614 and 1640, was a gentleman of the Privy Chamber 1612-1618 before being appointed its treasurer, in which office he served until 1640, when he was appointed a member of the Council of War. He performed his duties conscientiously but lacked enthusiasm for a civil war in England. In August 1642, when Charles sent him from Nottingham to London with an answer to the Long Parliament’s Nineteen Propositions, it was therefore with the tacit understanding that he would ‘intend the business of his own fortune’. Under the stress of increasing financial embarrassment, Uvedale eventually became a passive Parliamentarian and remained a local magistrate under the Rump. He was buried at Wickham on 3 December 1652, the last of the family to sit in Parliament.
TNA E 115/134/51; The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629; PROB 11/258/446; PROB 11/90/52; https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/jane-stoteville/
£150-200

Condition:
Original document, signed by the King.- actual signature - not printed.

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