Author: EXCHEQUER RECEIPT/TALLY, WITH TRANSFER OF DEBT
Title: Order is taken this 23rd Day of December, 1708. By Vertue and in Pursuance of an Act lately passed in Parliament (Entituled, An Act for Granting an Aid to Her Majesty, to be raised by a Land-Tax in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year 1709.) that you deliver and pay such Her Majesty's Treasure as remains in Your Charge, arising by Vertue of the said Act, unto Sir Thomas Littleton Bar. or his Assigns, the Sum of One Thousand Pounds...
Description: 1708. Printed and manuscript single sheet, folio. Piece cut from right hand side. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. Marked "Bank 428." An interesting document, the reverse bearing a manuscript transfer of the sum "to the Governor & Comp of the Bank of England", with various affidavits regarding transfer and repayment of the sum signed variously by Lord Halifax, Hawes[?], Lord Godolphin, and receipted for payment on full by Gilbert Heathcote, Governor of the Bank of England, 23rd Nov 1709.

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