[ Wolf Van Hemert, Dutch merchant in London. ] Autograph Signature ('Wolfert van Hemert'), as attorney to 'Herman VAnder Keere, & Adriaen Verstolk', to Exchequer receipt.

1p., 8vo. On aged and worn paper, with damage and loss along one edge (not affecting signature). Set out in the usual way, with printed text completed in manuscript. Begins (with manuscript text in square brackets): 'Annuity for Life, 1746. | Record' [24 Septr. 1765] | Received the [28] Day of [Septr.] 176[5] by me [Wolf Van Hemert Atty to Herman Vander Heere, & Adriaen Verstolk'. Recording a payment of £45 on an annuity. Witness signature of ' Newland'. Van Hemert was born in Amsterdam and is buried in Austin Friars churchyard, London, with a memorial to him inside the church. London. C. H. Wilson's 'Anglo-Dutch Commerce & Finance in the Eighteenth Century' (CUP, 1966) notes the London trading house 'of John and Wolfert van Hemert, which until 1744 or 1745 was chiefly engaged in importing linens from Amsterdam, and re-exporting colonial goods. Between 1745 and 1755, their interests became almost entirely financial.'