Note 530 — REIGN OF GEORGE I.: 1714–1727. (continued 2)
Reading edition
‘London, September 3, 1720.—Last Wednesday, the York Buildings Company sent down to Scotland about sixty thousand pounds in guineas, guarded by a party of horse, being part of the purchase-money for forfeited estates. The same is to be lodged in the Exchequer at Edinburgh.’—Newspapers of the day.