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Manuscript Warrant or Cheque signed by John Caryll and Thomas Bayley, to the bankers Clayton & Morris, authorising a payment of three hundred pounds to Francis Finch. 1 page 10 x 7 inches, fine, with integral blank leaf docketed on receipt. From the Clayton & Morris Papers. 15 February 1660 [1661]. A very early cheque. John Caryll (1625-1711), a prominent Catholic poet, dramatist and diplomat. The Caryll family used the financila network of Clayton & Morrs to transfer large dums of money. Clayton & Morris was the commercial partnership of Sir Robert Clayton and John Morris. The firm essentially pioneered modern banking and real estate brokering by lending money agaiinst property deeds and handling the legal and financial affairs of wealthy landowners and royalists.