BIB_ID
294971
Accession number
MA 739.9
Creator
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794.
Display Date
1768 May 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 33 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 18 letters, bills, and documents of the English historian Edward Gibbon. Items are cataloged individually in 18 records (MA 739.1-18); see collection record for more information.
This is a printed form that has been completed in an unknown hand.
This is a printed form that has been completed in an unknown hand.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1911.
Summary
Binding Edward Gibbon and his father Edward Gibbon, Sr. (and their heirs, executors and administrators) to Sir Francis Gosling, Knight and Alderman of the City of London, Robert Gosling Esq. of Lincoln's Inn Fields, and George Clive Esq. of Bedford Row for the sum of £3,200. The loan payments are to be due on 15 February 1769, with interest at the rate of £4 and 10 shillings per £100. Signatures of "Edward Gi[bbon]" and "Edward Gibbon [Junior]" have been partially torn away. Witnessed by J.W. Smith and William Jackson.
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