WALPOLE
(Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, 1st British Prime Minister)
Top Portion of a Document Signed by him on the verso,
under a manuscript transfer note, saying "I Doe hereby assigne & transfer all my Right, title & Interest in the within order & the Tally thereto belonging with Interest due and to grow due thereupon unto the Governor and Company of the Bank of England ...", with a note below, "Reg[iste]red J Hay", the printed text on the recto is the beginning of an Order in virtue of the main annual tax Act, first passed in 1711, for duty on many goods and renewed annually, this time "Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry, for the Service of the Year One thousand Seven hundred and fifteen and for making forth Duplicates of Exchequer Bills and Lottery Tickers, lost, burnt or destroy'd ...", 1 side oblong 8vo., Pay Office, Horse Guards, 30th September
Item Date:
1715
Stock No:
34619
£375
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WALPOLE
(Spencer Horatio, 1806-1898, F.R.S., Chairman of the GWR, Home Secretary)
Autograph envelope signed,
to J. Winter Jones at the British Museum, London, 13th April
Item Date:
1876
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51068
£15
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WALPOLE
(Spencer, 1806-1898, M.P. for Cambridge, Home Secretary)
Autograph Letter in the third person to Dr George Phillips, 1804-1892,
Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, accepting for dinner on 9th June (to meet the new Chancellor, the Duke of Devonshire), with autograph envelope front, 2 sides 8vo., 9 Grafton Street, London, 22nd May
Item Date:
1862
Stock No:
50076
£25
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WALPOLE
(Galfridus, 1683-1726, Naval Officer and Politicion, Joint Postmaster General)
Instruction document signed addressed to Charles Lockyer
instructing him to "pay to Mr Edward Parsons my Dividend on £2542-4s-4d being all my Stock in the South Sea Company Books due at Xmas last and his Receipt shall be a sufficient discharge ....", 1 side oblong 4to., London, June
Item Date:
1722
Stock No:
39786
£350
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WALPOLE
(Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, 1st British Prime Minister)
Fine Document signed addressed to the Pay Office of the Horse Guards
listing “the following Sumes being necessary for the Subsistence of His Majesty’s Forces as hereafter mention’d, I humbly move your Lo[rdships] to direct Moneys to answer the same viz: In part of £567,070.s.4 Voted for Guards, Garrisons etc Anno 1721. For Two Months Subsistence to the forces provided for in this Sume, Commencing the 24th of this Instant February, and ending the 24th of April 1721, £72,107.1.5....” and it continues to list other sums comign to a total of £178,339.16.0 “Which Sums yo[ur] Lo[rdships] were pleas’d to Order me to raise out of the Tallys and Orders on Malt 1720 in my hands, and which I humbly move your Lo[rdships] to replace out of the Supply granted by Parliament for the Service of the year 1721...”, 1 side folio with notation on fourth side, no place, 14th February
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
41943
£775
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