Cheeke, Russell Tipping families: Archer of Tanworth

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The daughters of William Harbord esq. deceased to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. Copy of petition. (This petition is calendared in Cal.Treasury Papers 1697-1702, p. 28,no. 45., with the addition: 'Minuted - The arrears to be demanded, l're writ 16 April 1697.) The executors of the petitioners' father, former paymaster general of the forces in the reduction of Ireland, are about to pass an account out of which a balance of £2,525:5:7 will be due to the king, but the petitioners have several other demands to make on the balance, and their father was always very zealous in the king's service and died therein at Belgrade on his embassy to the Ottoman port: they pray that the balance may be remitted. [undated, 1697]