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Auction: 14017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 390

An interesting sheet of Account, 1708, a handritten sheet, folio, listing amounts of capital and interest lent to the Government by Edward Russell Esq. in 1696 and 1697, signed by the Earl of Halifax, torn in half and neatly repaired, some discolouration, fine.

Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford (1653 - 1727), younger son of the 4th Earl of Bedford, a naval captain at an early age, later becoming Admiral of the Fleet, then First Lord of the Admiraly in 1694. Created Baron Shingay, Viscount Barfleur, and Earl of Orford in 1697.
Charles Montague, Earl of Halifax (1661 - 1715), Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1694 - 1699, First Lord of the Treasury, 1714.

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