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Consolidated £3 per cent annuities - sale of £650. Stamp (VII shillings, three shillings, 1797).
Know all men by these presents, that we the Right Reverend Richard Watson DD, Lord Bishop of Llandaff, the Reverend Joseph Jowell LLD, Isaac Pennington MD, of Cambridge both, and the Reverend William Pearce DD, Master of Jesus College do make, constitute, and appoint Henry Hoare, Henry Hugh Hoare, Charles Hoare, William Henry Hoare and Henry Merrik Hoare, Bankers, and John Noble, Banker, all of Fleet Street, London, jointly and severally our true and lawful attorneys for us in our names and on our Behalf, to sell, align and transfer All, or any Part of six hundred and fifty pounds. All our Interest or Share in the Capital or Jointt Stock of Three per Cent. Annuities, erected by an Act of Parliament of the 25th Year of the Reign of his Majesty King GEORGE IId. intitled "An Act for converting the several Annuities therein mentioned, into several Joint Stocks of Annuities therein mentioned, into several Joint Stocks of Annuities, transferable at the BANK of ENGLAND, to be charged on the Sinking Fund, &c. by several subsequent Acts".
Also to receive the Consideration Money, and give a Receipt or Receipts for the same.
And to do all lawful Acts requisite for effecting the Premises; hereby ratifying and confirming all that our said Attorneys shall do therein by Virtue hereof. In WITNESS thereof we have hereunto set our Hands and Seals, the fourth day of September in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Nine.
Signed, sealed and delivered (being first duly stamped) by Joseph Jowell LLD, Isaac Pennington MD and William Pearce DD in presence of us Father W. Annesby LLD, London and J.H. Michell AM Fellow of King's College Cambridge.
Notes at bottom:
The Date is to be inserted at the Time of Execution in Words at Length, and the Place of Abode, and Quality of the Witnesses written against their Names.
Notes at bottom:
N.B. Every Letter of Attorney that is executed by a Mark instead of a written Name, must be witnessed by the Minister of the Parish, and one of the Church-Wardens, or by two Church-Wardens.
Reverse: I Demand to Act by this Letter of Attorney this Day of 179 Witness (not completed)