PAYMENT TO THE ROYAL JEWELLER [CHARLES I (1600-1649, King of Great Britain)]

Lower half of an order to the Receiver General and the Commissioners of the Revenue, for a payment to James Heriot "upon yo[u]r next accompt. Given under o[u]r signe Manuall", with James Heriot's signature and receipt for £1300, 1 side 6½" x 8", the order from "o[u]r Pallace of Westminster", 10th April, 4 Charles I (1628), the receipt 20th December lacking top half

James Heriot, the half-brother of George Heriot (the famous founder of the school in Edinburgh and jeweller to James VI and I), is first noticed in Edinburgh as a goldsmith in 1594. James married, in June 1625, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Joyce, keeper of the Robes to Charles I, and was appointed one of the jewellers to the King in 1627. He died in 1629 or shortly after. (See 'The Heriots of Trabroun', p. 54, reference kindly supplied by Mrs Yvonne Marr of the NLS).
From the present document he seems to have been more fortunate than his son Alexander Heriot, who was owed £2068 2s 8d for jewels when Charles I was executed. A warrant of 1674 in BL Stowe MS 206, f. 35, reveals that James' grandson James had to accept £1000 in full settlement of the latter debt, which was proved "by several constats or certificates of privy seales entered in Our Courts of Exchequer".

Item Date:  1628

Stock No:  51621      £275

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