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Corporation of Liverpool £50 Municipal Bond
Transcription: No. 0701 Liverpool 12th November 1794, Twelve months after date promised to pay to George Sterling, , , , , , or bearer fifty pounds with interest for the same after the rate of four pounds 11/3 lent by the year for the corporation of…
Abstract of the Music Hall Trust Deed No. (265.)
Recto Transcription:
Liverpool Music Hall. Share, No. (265) An abstract of the deed of trust. 1st January 1795. By indenture of this date, made between Daniel Daulby and John Clarke, of the one part, and John Brown, Thomas Staniforth, Edward Falkner,…
South Sea Company Power of Attorney for £300 of Stock
Transcription:
Know all men by these presents that I the R Honbles Jane Martha Countess Dowages of Portland. Do hereby authorize and empower Robert Dingley of James Westminster Gentlemen. To sell assigne and transfer unto any person or persons…
Record of Annuities, 1710
Part Transcription: "Annuities, 9 l. per Cent. 1710. Record' [blank] Numb. [blank]. The [blank] day [...] [blank] 17[blank]. Received by me [blank] of the Right [...] George Lord Viscount Dupplin, one of the four [...] of His Majesty's Receipt of…
Tags: 18th century, annuity, early printing, William Burnet
Mercy and Irwell Navigation Company Share
Transcription:No. 49 By virtue of an act of parliament made in the seventh year of his present majesties reign entitled an act for making the rivers Mercy and Irwell navigable from Liverpool to Manchester in the county palatine of Lancaster and by…
British Gas Light Company
Recto Transcription:
British Gas Light Company Share £50 No 2921 This is to certify That Issac Morris Ellisen of foreign stock exchange in the city of London is the proprietor of the share No. 2921 in the capital of the British Gas Light Company as…
British Gas Light Company Share £50 No 2921 This is to certify That Issac Morris Ellisen of foreign stock exchange in the city of London is the proprietor of the share No. 2921 in the capital of the British Gas Light Company as…
Government Loan for the War against France, a £700 Bond
Transcription:
Order is taken this [illegible] day of April 1693. By virtue of their majesties Letters of Privy Seal, Dated the [illegible] day of January 1692. That you deliver and pay of such their majesties treasure as remains in your charge,…
Tags: 17th century, Exchequer, France, government loan, Lord Halifax, war
Instructions from the Lords of the Admiralty
Transcription:
By the principal officers and commanders of his majesties navy. It being intended that a package should be made through the boat houses and conveniencyes behind them for stowing such boats as the houses will not hold and now suffer by…
Tags: 17th century, manuscript, navy, Portsmouth, shipyard
Asylum Life Assurance Company Share
Transcription:
This is to certify that [illegible] is the holder of one share numbered as under of and in the capital of the asylum life assurance company in London as appears by the register in the office of the company and the said [illegible] is…
Tags: 19th century, installments, life insurance, London, share
London and Birminghame Steam Carriage Company Shares
transcription: London and Birmingham Steam Carriage Company. Capital,
Two Hundred Thousand Pounds in 10,000 shares of £20 each. This is to certify that [illegible] is a proprietor of five shares in the capital stock of the London and Birmingham…
Property Insurance Policy Against Loss by Fire
Transcription:
No. 477087 Whereas the trustees for the time being of the Somerset elms house at the Proxfield in the County of Mills hath paid the sum of three pounds seventeen shillings to the society of the SUN FIRE-OFFICE in London and has agreed…
Lipton, Limited. Ordinary Share Certificate
Transcription: [within engraved frame]
No. 061737 Ordinary share certificate Capital 2,000,000 divided into 1,000,000 five percent cumulative preference shares of £1 each numbered 1 to 1,000,000 both inclusive entitled to a fixed cumulative…
East London Water Works Share Transfer
Transcription:
No.120 These are to certify that Robert Simpson of Hoxton in the county of Middlesex of Esquire is a proprietor of and entitles to one share, being No.120 entered in the registry book of the above undertaking and is by virtue thereof…
East London Water Works Share
Part Transcription: "No. [blank]. East London Water Works; £60,000. raised in shares of £100. each. These are to certify that [blank] of [blank] is a proprietor of and entitled to one share, being No. [blank]. ... Given under the common seal of the…
East Wheal Brothers Share
Recto Transcription:
East Wheal Brothers copper, tin lead and silver mining company. Capital £100,000 in 8000 shares of £20 each No. 4077 The bearer hereof is entitled to on share No. 4277 in this company subject to the conditions annexed. London,…
Tags: 19th century, East Wheal Brothers, London, Mining, printing, share
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Polycronycon
Imprint from colophon.
Includes index.
By Ranulf Higden, whose name appears on 2a3r.
Translated by John Trevisa, who is named on…