Document signed by these four parties, part printed, part manuscript.

Author: 
Earl Marchmont, Thomas [ Secker ] Archbishop of Canterbury, Beversham Filmer, J. Stephens.
Publication details: 
15/11/58
£250.00
SKU: 4666

One page, 4to, one small tear, staining, pinholes, text clear and complete. The four parties acknowledge receipt of £62.10 in their office aas "executors of Sarah late Duchess of Marlborough assignee of John Rudghe as per margin. In the margin, in manuscript is a list of years 1828-1838 with a list of yearly sums which add up to the £62.50 they are acknowledging. The list has the name John Rudge next to it. They received the money from James Earl Waldegrave (written in ms. over the printed name of Horatio Walpole [see DNB, younger brother of Robert Walpole]) one of the tellers of "His Majesty's Receipt of Exchequer, comprising three months of annuity by virtue of the Act for "continuing the Duties on Low Wines, and Spirits of the First Extraction, and the Duties payable by Hawkers, Pedlars and Petty Chapman, and Part of the Duties on Stampt Vellum, Parchment and Paper, and the late Duties on Sweets, etc, etc". Signatures as folows: "Marchmont / Tho. Cant. / Bev: Filmer / J. Stephens.