Co Dublin, Dublin, Sight note, 14 May 1713, ‘At three days sight pay to Mr James Swift…Twenty Eight Pounds, One Shilling and Four Pence sterl…from…Honorable Sir Francis Child’s House near Temple Barr-Gate, London’. Cancelled with spike hole €500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bob Blake Collection of Irish Banknotes.

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Sir Francis Child (1642-1713), goldsmith and banker, alderman of London 1689, sheriff 1691, Lord Mayor 1699, MP for Devizes from 1698 to 1713, is buried in Fulham churchyard. Child’s Bank, which dates back to the 1670s, was originally located at the Marygold, near Temple Bar