Manuscript 'Appointment of Frank Cockburn Esqr. as Clerk of Assize of the Midland Circuit', signed by Sir Alexander Cockburn ('A. E. Cockburn'), Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench.

On one side of a piece of vellum, 34.5 x 42.5 cm. Folded into a docketed 9 x 21 cm packet. In good condition, lightly-aged. Signed by 'A. E. Cockburn', and by two witnesses: 'J H Brewer' of Curzon Street, Mayfair, and 'Henry William Frayling | Clerk to the said Sir A E. Cockburn', with remains of his red wax seal. Also signed at foot by the Queen's Remembrancer 'W H Walton'. 'I The Right Honourable Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn Baronet Lord Chief Justice of Her Majesty's Court of Queens Bench and also Chief or Primary Justice of our Lady the Queen [...] Do give and grant unto Frank Cockburn of No. 3 Tanfield Court Temple in the City of London Esquire the Offices of Clerk of the Assizes and Clerk of the Crown within the said Counties of Northampton Rutland Lincoln Notttingham Derby Leicester and Warwick and in the County of the City of Lincoln Town of Nottingham and Borough of Leicester'. The relationship between the two men is unclear. Frank Cockburn retained this office until 1876. WITH: Autograph Statement Signed by Frank Cockburn, appointing Spencer Murch Cox of Honiton as "Associate for the said [Midland] Circuit from this day ..." [30 Sept. 1863].