Cheeke, Russell Tipping families: Archer of Tanworth

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A bundle comprising 34 drafts by Edward Cheeke on James Heriot, one receipt associated with a draft, Heriot's accounts with Edward Cheeke for 1700, 1701 and 1702, a bill of 1700 for £117:8:9 worth of plate, and two agreements between Edward Cheeke and Isaac Wells about payments which Wells is to make for pollard trees, one dated 14 November 1702. The bundle is wrapped in the account for 1700 endorsed ' Mr. Heriots Acc'ts Payments from 1700 '. James Heriot was a descendant of George Heriot, goldsmith to King James I and founder of Heriots Hospital, Edinburgh. He is shown in the 'Little London Directory' of 1677 as a goldsmith keeping a running-cash at The Naked Boy, Fleet Street, to which address all Edward Cheeke's drafts are directed. See F.G.Hilton-Price, A Handbook of London Bankers, 1890. 1701 The three following papers form one bundle