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- May 6th 1824 (Creation)
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London May 6th 1824
Bought of Francis Lambert & Co
Goldsmith and Jeweller
No 12 Coventry Street corner of Panton Square
Dealer in second-hand plate for ready money only
4 handsome shell silver candlesticks - £31.16
2 Ditto - £15
Engraving long inscription crest and motto on each £1.10
£48.16
Letter 1:
12 Coventry Street, London
May 7th 1824
To Calvert Esquire
Sir,
Agreeable to your inscription claims we this day forwarded to the Reverend Dr French at Jesus College Cambridge a box containing the six silver candlesticks, which we hope will arrive safe and get your approval on the other side. We beg to have your account of them. The payment of which can be made through any banker in town. We beg to solicit your further favours.
Sir, your respectful servants,
Lambert and Rawlings
Letter 2:
12 Coventry Street London
May 14th 1824
Dr French,
Sir,
We are this day in receipt of your favour of yesterday, we beg to inform you that we shall feel obliged by your desiring the amount of our dependent to be paid into the house of Bankers Charing Cross London and placed to the account of Lambert and Co.
Your respectful servants,
Lambert and Co.
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