Item 54: Partial Exchequer Receipt and Signatures from [George Montagu, Earl of] Halifax and [Thomas] Onslow, [1730]

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 54

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Partial Exchequer Receipt and Signatures from [George Montagu, Earl of] Halifax and [Thomas] Onslow, [1730]

Dates

Created: [1730]

Creator

“Onslow” [likely Onslow, Thomas Onslow, Baron, 1679-1740] (creator) (Person)

Disclaimer for Name and Subject Authorities

Some of the name and subject authority tags have been assigned by educated guessing and estimation of persons and subjects by region, age, profession, and familial relationships. They have been thoroughly researched by using primary and secondary sources available digitally, and named in each description, or in some cases linked directly to the person tag.

Access:

All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.

Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Receipt/signatures

Condition Note:

Good. Very little vinegar smell. Incomplete; left part of page was cut; staining; document is yellowing

Measurements:

4 ¾ in. x 3 ⅞ in.

Description:

The following item is half of an exchequer receipt containing the signatures of “Onslow” [likely referring to Thomas Onslow, 1679-1740, Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer from 1718-1740] and “Halifax” [likely referring to Geroge Montagu [alternatively Montague], 1st Earl of Halifax, 1684-1739, Auditor of the Exchequer from 1714-1739], possibly dated 1730. The contents of the note are unintelligible as they may be a form of clerical shorthand. This document may have been a Teller’s Bill used to document the amount of money paid to the Exchequer. The Teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer would have been responsible for creating the Teller’s Bill, and the Auditor of the Exchequer would have been responsible for filing and auditing the document. George Montagu and Thomas Onslow would have worked in the Office of the Exchequer together from approximately 1718-1739. An Exchequer Bill from 1720 contains the same Halifax signature. Several documents containing the signatures of both Halifax and Onslow are located in an Exchequer Document Collection in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. [Halifax’s signature matches that of Item 129: Autograph from [George Montagu, 1st Earl of] Halifax, 1720]

Transcription:

[Front] Cler privat fs ad dd f e p And finit Baptist And 8 uy 0

}lpytn gs lodL Onslow 206 [Pencil; written later, possibly archivist’s notes]

Onslow Halifax (1730) [Pencil; written later, possibly archivist’s notes]

[Back] Lord Onslow + Earl of Halifax [Pencil, possibly archival notes]

0 . 7 . 9 ¾ 2 . 6 0 . 10 . 3¾