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Auction: 9014 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 361

Treasury Warrant: An instruction to the auditor of the Exchequer, Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, to issue an Exchequer Order for the payment of a shortfall of £39,631 6 shillings and ten pence halfpenny, on duties on glass and spirits, 1750, signed by three Lord Commissioners of the Treasury, Hon. Henry Pelham (First Lord and Chancellor of the Exchequer), George Grenville (Prime Minister of England 1763 to 1765) and Henry Vane (Ist Earl of Darlington), a manuscript document of 4 pages, torn in half and rejoined, scarce Estimate £ 170-200

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