Notice of protest form lodged on behalf of Joseph James against Garnham Blaxcell for a dishonoured promissory note; signed by Ellis Bent, Judge Advocate. Sydney, 1813.

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[Sydney, NSW : 16 August, 1813]. Small folio bifolium (250 x 200 mm), laid paper watermarked W. SHARP 1810; the first side contains a pro forma legal document printed in letterpress by George Howe, with manuscript entries in a clerical hand recording Judge Advocate of New South Wales Ellis Bent s protest on behalf of Captain Joseph James, merchant, against Garnham Blaxcell for a dishonoured £250 promissory note dated 13 July 1812, which had been payable in good Government Bills before 24 September 1812, and so consequently was now almost a year overdue; signed by Ellis Bent as Judge Advocate and James Foster, Clerk; the third side with a manuscript copy of the original promissory note; second and fourth sides blank; water staining at fore-edges, partially affecting (though not completely obscuring) the ends of the lines of printed text and manuscript; otherwise clean and legible, with two old horizontal folds. A very early Sydney legal document. The Powerhouse Museum holds a second copy of the present notice of protest form (with the same date of 16 August 1813), which it attributes to the printer George Howe (Object 96/332/2). It also holds a dishonoured promissory note for £250 signed by Blaxcell to James, dated 24 June 1812 (Object 96/332/1). The Powerhouse Museum s description of Blaxcell s dishonoured promissory note succintly illuminates the background to Blaxcell s ongoing financial predicament: Garnham Blaxcell, with Alexander Riley and D arcy Wentworth, was contracte

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