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Auction: 17016 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 454

Exchequer receipt, 17[14], for the sum of £4 19s 91/2d, being 6 months interest on a £100 loan with the benefit of Survivorship, to the Exchequer issued under an 'Act for granting to Their Majesties certain Rates and Duties [on excise] ..... carrying on a Vigorous War against France', signed by Sir William Scawen, single page, folio, printed with manuscript insertions. Loan raised to finance the War of Spanish Succession. Some water damage, trimmed, some paper loss, F

Sir William Scawen, 1644 - 1722, MP , Director of the Bank of England on its inception in 1694, Governor in 1697. Director of the East India Company.

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