Exchequer Receipt (6 results)

Printed and manuscript receipt, 160 x 160 mm. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. Elizabeth Rich, nà e Griffith, was the was the daughter and co-heir of Colonel Edward Griffith, one of the Clerks of the Board of Green Cloth and private secretary to Prince George of Denmark. Her husband, Sir Robert Rich, would of course receive money on her behalf.

Printed and manuscript receipt, 210 x 195 mm. ink faded. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts.

Printed and manuscript; folio, single sheet. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. William Hayley [c. 1653 - 1715] was Rector of St Giles in the Fields and subsequently Dean of Chichester Cathedral. The Exchequer Teller, one of four, was John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge, who was appointed Teller for life. With no income tax in this period of history, the Crown raised duties on other goods and services but frequently resorted to borrowing from wealthy landowners and merchants which would be repaid by these duties. William Hayley appears as an assignee for another, but I have found no record of how he came by his wealth to be able to loan the crown the huge amount of £25,000.

Printed and manuscript receipt, 180 x 150 mm. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. Sir Denis Dutry [died 1728] was a wealthy London merchant and a director of the Honourable East India Company.

Printed and manuscript receipt, 190 x 190 mm. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. James Brydges, Baron Chandos, amassed most of his wealth by profiting from public office; he subsequently lost money in the South Sea Bubble and the York Buildings Company.

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.