North Yorkshire Moors Collection, Part IV: Coins and Medals

XIV: Seals by Simon, Henry Cromwell’s Official Seal as Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1657, a uniface steel electrotype copy of the Seal (obverse), ornate arms surmounted by helmet and lion, sigil henrici cromwell depvtati, 42 x 36mm, 21.32g (Henfrey p.387, and pl. xxv, 7). About extremely fine £100-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The North Yorkshire Moors Collection of British Coins.

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Provenance: R.C. and O.M.W. Warner Collection; bt Baldwin 1968.

Henry Cromwell (1628-74), fourth son of Oliver, served in his father’s New Model Army, but spent most of the decade while his father was in power in Ireland, becoming commander of the Irish Army in August 1654. On 16 November 1657 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant. Upon Charles II’s accession the restored Rump Parliament ordered him to deliver up the government of Ireland and return to England, which he did at the end of June 1660. Cromwell retired to Spinney Abbey, Wicken, Cambridgeshire, a property he purchased in 1661