Charter 1833 (1 results)

On one side of a piece of laid watermarked paper, 14 x 8 cm. On aged and creased paper. The accounts are brief, and neatly written in an unidentified hand. At foot '1845'. Headed 'Revenue as calculated to end of Charter', and featuring a total of £17,936,217 against itemised charges of £18,763517, including those incurred 'in India', 'Esp: St Helena', 'Political Chges in England' and 'Cost of '. Beneath this a section headed 'Of ye above charges may be pble in Engd'. It may be that the accounts were a projection of how matters might stand when the Company's Charter of 1833, which vested the island of St Helena in the Crown, came to an end, as it did with the creation of the new Charter in 1853. From the Twining Papers. …