[CHARLES I]. A manuscript receipt signed (“Law. Squibb”) for money given to raise King Charles’s forces in 1662.
Parchment slip (51 x 384 mm), folded, small hole. Included with a TLS from The British Library identifying the subjects addressed. The receipt for £250 is addressed to Job Harby, Baronet; and John Wolstenholme, John Jacob, Nicholas Crispe, John Harrison and John Shaw, Knights, farmers of the customs and duties for all England and for monies received in the port of London for one year ending at the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next [i.e. 29 September] 1663. It is signed by Lawrence Squibb, one of the four Tellers of the Exchequer. Harby was a London merchant and around this time was petitioning the Crown for relief with regards to money he had advanced Charles I.