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[004689] [Payment for Tin]. Cha. Dartiquenave Esq. In Repayment of Loan on the Sale of Tin, Without Interest. No Place: No Publisher, 1713. First Edition. 4to. Unbound. Ephemera. Good. Broadside receipt, printed with manuscript additions approximately 235mm x 280mm in size

Laid down on slightly larger card, lightly browned with spots of foxing, but generally fairly clean. Receipt asking Sir Roger Mostyn to make payment to Charles Dartiquenave the sum of twenty-five pounds, to repay him for the “like sum by him lent upon the credit of the money arising by the said sale of tin”, with payment being made in 1715, and signed by Mostyn to foot, with the signatures of ?Oxford and Wyndham to right hand margin

Charles Dartiquenave (bap. 1664?, d. 1737), epicure and courtier … Though politically non-partisan, Dartiquenave had an enduring sympathy for the whigs which resulted in his acquisition of several offices connected to the courts of Queen Anne and George I. Between 1707 and 1726 he was paymaster of the royal works … During his lifetime, however, Dartiquenave’s reputation was less that of a courtier than of a witty and convivial man about town. His tendency to ‘say very good things’ (Caulfield, 223) made him a regular dining and drinking companion of Jonathan Swift, who described Dartiquenave in October 1710 and March 1711 as ‘the greatest punner of this town next to myself’ and ‘the man that knows everything and that everybody knows'” (ODNB)