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[001953] [Subscription List]. Subscriptions Entered Into at Liverpool for the Widow and Families of the Late Captain William Taylor of the Candish and His Mate; to be Divided in the Proportion of 2/3rds to the Capts Widow and 1/3 His Mate. No Place: No Publisher, First Edition. Folio. Unbound. Ephemera. Good. [4]p, (two pages used), manuscript subscription list, approximately 205mm x 330mm in size, n.d. but c.1827.

Creased from old folds and lightly browned, otherwise fairly clean.

A list of donations to the families of two deceased shipmates, the Captain William Taylor and his unnamed mate, with two thirds going to the senior officer, collected in Liverpool.

A total of just over £35 was raised for the pair in Liverpool, with a couple of other smaller collections noted on the second page taking the total to just over £50.

On Whatman paper which is watermarked 1827