Government Loan for the War against France, a £700 Bond

Government Loan for the War against France, a £700 Bond

Exchequer

April 1693

24.3 x 36.7cm

A government loan, a £700 bond, the main body of text is printed on paper and sections have been written in by hand. A right brace is beside the printed text. The paper is torn, with losses affecting manuscript additions. This document is signed by several people near the bottom left corner.

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, (arising by a late Act of Parliament, Entitled, An Act for Granting to Their Majesties an Aid of Four Shillings in the Pound for One Year, for carrying on a Vigorous War against France) unto [illegible] or [illegible] assignes the sum of seven hundred pounds in repayment of the sum by sum lent to their majesties, upon the credit of the said act, and paid into the receipt of their majesties exchequer, the [illegible] day of April 1 1693. As by a Talley bearing date the fame day appears; Together with interest for the fame, after the rate of seven hundred pounds per cent, per annum, at the end of every three months, from the date of the said talley, until the repayment of the principal: and these together with or assigns acquittance, shall be your discharge herein.

Acquired by Mr. Seymour Schulich in 1993. Donated by Mr. Seymour Schulich in 2017.

Hampden, Chancellor of Exchequer. Stephen Fox, financier. Charles Montague, later Lord Halifax.

English

Great Britain

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