Note 353 — PART I. (continued 3)

Amongst other English customers of the firm in 1788, 1789, and 1790 were ‘Milords’ Farnham and Findlater, the latter of whom was supplied with 120 bottles of the vintage of 1788; Manning, of the St. Alban’s Tavern, London, who ordered 130 bottles of vin de Champagne, at 3 livres or 2 s. the bottle, to be delivered in the autumn by M. Caurette; Messrs. Felix Calvert & Sylvin, who took two sample bottles at 5 s.; and Mr. Lockhart, banker, of 36 Pall Mall, who in 1790 paid 3 s. per bottle for 360 bottles of the vintage of 1788. The high rate of exchange in our favour is shown by the 54 l. covering this transaction being taken as 1495 livres 7 sols 9 deniers, or about 28 livres per pound sterling.