Banking ledger kept in person by Edward Backwell, containing well over six hundred original acquittances for payments received, over forty of which are signed by him ("per me Edward Backwell"), kept in one volume and two loose gatherings, the principal volume inscribed on the upper cover in a contemporary hand "Acquittance Booke from the xviiith of August 1660. to xxvth of December following [paraph]/ From xxvi December 1660 to the xxiiith of February next In the [?] Paper [i.e. unbound] bookes" [contractions expanded]; the two unbound gatherings both inscribed in contemporary hands respectively on the upper wrapper "Arrears./ Acquittances determining the 23th of February 1660" and "Kings Accompt/ Acquittances determining the 23th of February 1660", c.100 pages, some usual dust-staining and other signs of use, some later leaves roughly torn out and two now loose, original white ruled vellum, narrow folio (c.480 x 180mm.), Excise Office, London, 18 August 1660 to 16 March 1661
Banking ledger kept in person by Edward Backwell, containing well over six hundred original acquittances for payments received, over forty of which are signed by him ("per me Edward Backwell"), kept in one volume and two loose gatherings, the principal volume inscribed on the upper cover in a contemporary hand "Acquittance Booke from the xviiith of August 1660. to xxvth of December following [paraph]/ From xxvi December 1660 to the xxiiith of February next In the [?] Paper [i.e. unbound] bookes" [contractions expanded]; the two unbound gatherings both inscribed in contemporary hands respectively on the upper wrapper "Arrears./ Acquittances determining the 23th of February 1660" and "Kings Accompt/ Acquittances determining the 23th of February 1660", c.100 pages, some usual dust-staining and other signs of use, some later leaves roughly torn out and two now loose, original white ruled vellum, narrow folio (c.480 x 180mm.), Excise Office, London, 18 August 1660 to 16 March 1661
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