[Duke of Newcastle (Henry, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne).] Autograph Signature, with that of Henry Saxby, to extracted manuscript document with debenture entry.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. While shunning the limelight, Newcastle was an influential figure in British politics; it was through his lobbying that his cousin Sir Henry Clinton was appointed commander-in-chief of the British forces in America during the American Revolution. According to Timothy Mowl's 1996 biography of Horace Walpole, Newcastle was 'famed for an unusually large penis', which he deployed on both sexes. On one side of a 12 x 19 piece of laid paper, with large triangle cut at top right (not near signature). In good condition, lightly aged, with three neat fold lines (not through signature). Large clear signature ‘Newcastle’, between two short pieces of text in the hand of Henry Saxby, with his small neat signature ‘Henry Saxby’. On the reverse is the ‘Debentur’ entry in Latin, with marginal note ‘Out of 1/3 Tonns since 8th. March 1706.’ In another hand at foot: ‘Examd: Record: 11 Oct: 1773 [...]’. Most of the side with the signature is blank, with portrait orientation, while the entry side is filled with landscape text, with slight loss through diagonal crop at bottom right.