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Copy of an acknowledgement by Sir William Beecher of Howbury, knight, Richard Taylor of Clapham esquire and William Francklin of Lincoln’s Inn, Middlesex

no date c.1666

From: 1660 To: 1670

reciting that they, as Commissioners of the hundreds of Barford, Stodden and Willey, had borrowed £1000 of Dame Mary Hatton of Long Stanton, Cambridgeshire, according to an Act for additional supply made at a session of Parliament lately held at Oxford, as a loan to the King to be repaid with interest, and that the money has been paid in the names of the 3 commissioners, though collected from many. Acknowledgement that though the bond was in their names, they held in trust etc.

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Beecher, William,
Taylor, Richard,
Francklin, William,
Hatton, Mary

legal papers, commissioner, Barford Hundred, Stodden Hundred, Willey Hundred, Cambridgeshire Long Stanton, PARLIAMENT, Oxford