RELICS OF A LONDON BANKING HOUSE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5683, 8 May 1880, Page 3

RELICS OF A LONDON BANKING HOUSE.

..."When, two or three years .ago, Messrs Child rumniaged.o'tft tne contents of the two rooms which they occupied Over the street in Temple Bai 1 , and where' their ledgers and old cheques had been deposited year by year since the Revolution of 1688, if not earlier, they came upon a, Variety of .cttriotta papers, illustrative of ilie e£rls .history, hot merely of their Own bahliirigihduge', btft of the "goldsmith's" business out oi which it rose into being, Among other curiosa, says the Whitehall Jtevieto, they found one of poof Nell -Gwyhne's receipts, signed in her loose* straggling hand, "E.G."; nlso seve'r&P're'ceipta and cheques of John, Duke of and hiß imperious wife Sarah, who is said to have driven down to the bank in her coach from Marlborough House^ and to have saved it by lier p.urse from , ruin by a "run" on it. They found also letters, receipts, and cheques sighed by the Dukes of Bedford, Manchester, Somerset, Beaufort, and BridgewatSf j- Harley, Earl of Oxford, Vf Pope's Lord Bolingbf bke< the exiled Earl of Powis, Lord; Trevor, and many' other noblemen, who. lived near, the then fashionable district of Drmy Lane and Lincoln's-inn-fields, Another curiosity was a receipt signed by the. .infamous Titus Oates. jThese have all been carefully collected arid mounted in three scrapbooks , and it. is possible that some time er other they may be photographed, like everything else.— London Literary World.