Manuscript Pay Warrant and Receipt, with Autograph Signature.

Two pages. Dimensions of paper fourteen and a half inches by nine inches. Aged and stained, with fraying to extremities and some loss to one corner (not affecting text). Order to 'deliver and pay of such his Majesty's Treasure as remains in your Charge unto John Earl of Dunmore or his Assigns the Sum of Two hundred and Fifty Pounds', on Dunmore's 'Annuity or yearly Pension of One Thousand Pounds as one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Bedchamber'. With signatures of 'Winnington', 'G Earle' and <?>. Docketed 'Mr. Yorke I pray pay this Order out of Addl. <?> for the Civil List | 14 April 1740'. Countersigned 'Yorke'. With 'Walpole' - presumably Horatio Walpole, later 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton - in bottom right-hand corner. Autograph receipt, signed 'Dunmore', and witnessed by William Roper, on reverse.