English: License for Thomas Butler Gunn's father, Samuel Gunn, to trade in, sell, and vend Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate, in the House, and Places thereunto belonging, wherein he now dwells, and no where else…
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No 73 (Tea License, &c.) No
[official seal depicting unicorn, lion, and crown]
WE, whoїe Hands and Names are hereunto subscribed and Seals set, being the Collector of Excise in Oxon Collection in England, and the Supervisor of Excise of Banbury District within the Said Collection, in pursuance of an Act of Parliament made in the Twentieth Year of His Majesty’s Reign, do hereby permit and authorize Samuel Gun Dealer in Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate, living at Banbury ––––––––––––– In the Parish of D–––––––– within the їaid Collection, to trade in, sell, and vend Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate, in the House, and Places thereunto belonging, wherein he now dwells, and no where else, from the 7 Day of September 18 18 to the 7 Day of Septemb 18 19 he having paid eleven Shillings for this Licence to the said Collector of Excise. Given under our Hands and Seals this 11 ––––Day of September in the 58th –– Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great-Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and in the Year of our Lord 18 18
[unclear signature] Collector
[unclear signature] Superviїor.
Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 7, page 4, September 11, 1818
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