Banking Interest.- Letters and cheques 17th-20th century

A quantity of banking items and similar including correspondence, manuscripts etc,:

- A signed banking receipt note dated 5th February 1663, from London

- A business legal document dated 15th May 1677, from Elgin;

- A business legal document from Elgin of a similar date to the above;

- A financial legal document dated 1676

- A legal estate document dated 17th May 1711

- A financial receipt dated 28th October 1730, from London

- A letter from Ransom, Morland & Hammersley, London bankers, dated 1788

- Declaration of Trust dated 12th May 1796 (Vellum deed regarding Henry Rowson

- A letter from the Bank of England dated 24th September 1799

- A receipt to Coutts & Co. from the Bank of Scotland dated 1799

- A letter from Drummond & Co, London, dated 1810

- A receipt from the East Lothian Bank, Edinburgh, dated 1813

- A letter from the Bank of England to the Royal Bank of Scotland dated 30th September 1809

- A manuscript letter from Rothschild’s Bank in Paris to messrs. Campbell, Bowden & Taylor in Oporto (Now Taylor’s Port) dated 3rd April 1824

- A letter from the Bank of England dated 11th October 1827

- A letter from Drummond & Co. in London dated 9th August 1830

- A letter from Coutts & Co, London dated 16th October 1838

- A letter to John Heywood, banker in Liverpool, dated 3rd February 1844

Also including items of South Sea Company interest:

- manuscript signed match-cut receipt for funds from 1720 from Charles, 2nd Viscount Townsend;

- manuscript signed and sealed agreement regarding the South Sea Company (signatories include Sir Thomas Lowther, John Nicoll, Anthony Kock and John Trotter plus witnesses

Mounted Bank of England One Pound note from 1949-1955 (Percival Spencer Beale (1906-1981) signature)

Printed notice of charges from the Paris Bourse dated 1st April 1824

Cheques / payment instructions:

- Manuscript signed from Liverpool dated 1859 and 1893

- Printed, not filled (Cox & Co. / Crimea, plus Labouchere & Co.)

- Printed &signed from the Royal Bank of Scotland dated 1893

Cheques signed by

§ Odette Hallowes (1912-1995, secret agent of WWII)

§ Hartley William Shawcross, Lord Shawcross (1902- 2003)

§ Rex Harrison (1908-1990, actor)

§ Ranulph Fiennes (born 1944, explorer);

§ A collection of US bankers’ cheques from various banks of the c.19th and 20th (c.21 qty), many regarding Suffern, Hunt & co.

o Clipped c.19th signatures of Stafford Northcote and Lord Derby