Printed Receipt, with Manuscript Insertions, Signed by the 2nd Marquess, for rent on two Mayfair properties.

Author: 
Richard Grosvenor (1795-1869), 2nd Marquess of Westminster [Grosvenor Estate Office; Mayfair; Richard Jones]
Publication details: 
Grosvenor Estate Office, 9 Davies Street, Grosvenor Square; 30 March 1849.
£45.00
SKU: 4832

One page. Roughly nine inches by four. Aged and creased, with one small closed tear and one spike hole (neither affecting text, which is clear and complete). An attractive document, embossed with a government one shilling stamp, and bearing the Westminster coat of arms, supported by two dogs, engraved by Warrington, 27 Strand, in top left-hand corner. Reads (MS additions in square brackets): '[Imp: Hopkinson] | Grosvenor Estate Office, | 9, Davies Street, Grosvenor Square | Received the [March 30th] 184[9] of [Richard Jones Esqr. Thirty six Pounds] for One Year's Rent due at Lady Day last to the Marquess of Westminster, [10 Davies St. 47 So Audley St | [1 . 1] Income Tax | [34 . 19] Cash | £[36 . - . -] | WR [695]' Signed 'Westminster'. Jones may possibly be the political economist (1790-1855) or the father (1802-89) of Edward Burne Jones or someone completely different.