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Auction: 17016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 453

Exchequer receipt, 1[709], for the sum of £87 10 shillings, being 3 months interest on a £7000 loan to the Exchequer issued under an 'Act for Granting an Aid of [four] Shillings in the Pound for Carrying on the War against France and Spain', issued to and signed by Sir Edward Ward, single page, folio, printed with manuscript insertions. Piece missing at top edge but AVF

Sir Edward Ward, 1638-1714, lawyer and judge, chief Baron of the Exchequer. Best known for being the judge in the trial of the pirate Captain William Kidd.

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