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Auction: 22141 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World - e-Auction
Lot: 213

Great Britain: Exchequer - a selection of printed Orders of Payment, 1689 to 1722, all fragments, mostly top halves only but all retaining signatures of payees and sometimes treasury officials. Signatures include John Bennett, 1st Baron Ossulston (1689); Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet, Governor of the East India Company 1673-4; Sir James Montague, Attorney General; Sir John Germain, 1st Baronet, reputed illegitimate half brother to William III; John West, 1st Earl de la Warr (1693-1766), a privy councillor later to become General of the Horse in 1765; Christopher Vane, 1st Baron Barnard, Privy Councillor, his father was beheaded at Tower Hill in 1662, and, Charles, Lord Cornwallis, Privy Councillor and Constable of the Tower of London. The last signed by Treasury officials, Sir Richard Onslow, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir William St.Quintin, Edward Wortley and finally George Montagu, 1st Earl Halifax. See images for more detail. Mixed condition (8).

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