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Auction: 14017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 396

A fine Exchequer Order of Payment, 1731, manuscript document for £462.10s, made out to and signed on reverse by the Secretary of State, Lord Harrington, being 3 months of his annual salary, signed by George Dodington William Clayton and William Yonge as Commissioners of the Treasury and Lord Halifax as Auditor of the Exchequer, some discolouration and edge damage, but complete and rare thus.

William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, PC (c.1683 - 1756), statesman and diplomat. Ambassador to Spain, 1720 - 1727, Northern Secretary, 1730 - 1742 and again 1744 -1746, Lord President of the Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland until 1751.
George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1684 - 1739), MP for Northampton, Auditor of the Excheuqer from 1714, Privy Councillor from 1717 and Lord Justice from 1720.
George Bubb Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe PC (1691 - 1762)
William Clayton, 1st Baron Sundon (1671 - 1752)
Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet KCB FRS (ca. 1693 - 1755)

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Estimate
£220 to £250