1716 04 21 : Interest on a £50 bond

Update on Sunday, July 4, 2010 at 10:11PM by Petra Mitchinson

21 Apr 1716. INTEREST ON A £50 BOND. Bundle 4, Doc 39. 19 cm x 6 cm. Very dirty and crumpled at left edge. The dates and calculations don’t appear to add up. Mr KRAITHs [?] Bond Interest of 50 Pounds from ye. } Dat~ 21 Oc* 1715 21o Apr~ 1715 to the 7th. March 1716 } 4 : 13 : 3 Apr~ 1716 being one year 4 Mo: & a fourteen days } at 5 per Cent and a week more— }——— 1 0 ½ 4 14 3 ———————— 60 : 18 : 4 : Princ~ - - - 50 : 0 : 0 : 54 : 14 : 3 ———————— ——————— 54 : 14 : 3 115 12 7 : ————————