By the King, a proclamation. James R. : Whereas the Commissioners of the treasury of the late King our dearly beloved brother deceased, Sidney Lord Godolphin, ... Frederick Thynne esquire, on the fifth day of this instant February, ...
England and Wales.Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II)
JamesII,King of England,1633-1701.
London : Printed by the assigns of John Bill deceas'd: and by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty,
1684/5. [i.e. 1685]
Contract between Commissioners of Treasury and certain persons for farming the excise tax at £550,000, payable over three years.
At end of text: Given at our court at Whitehall, the sixteenth day of February, 1684/5. In the first year of our reign.
Steele notation: Brother years there-; Arms 99.
Horizontal chain lines. Another edition has vertical chain lines.
ESTC
Wing (2nd ed.)
Crawford, J.L.L. Royal proclamations, 1485-1714,
Excise tax
England London.