1568 Elizabethan Royal Messengers order for the payment for Letter Delivery

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Elizabethan Royal Messengers 1568 order for the payment of Philip Conway One of the ordenary of the Quenes Maties for carrying a letter from London into Bedfordshire to my Lord St. John of Bletsoe then to Northamptonshire to Sir John Spencer and from there delivering a letter into Lincolnshire to Lord Sheffield stating the cost of delivery at 2/8d. a day over a twenty-four day period which will be borne by Sir William Killigrew Groom of the Prviy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth. Letter paper fine with non-contemporary inscription on reverse alongside contemporary address panel. A rare and particularly early Royal Messenger order.