Coal – 1661 – banking interest fine indenture on vellum dated 1661 being a deed for a farm for duties on sea coal for 31 years. One of the parties to the document is John Viscount Mordaunt who’s involvement with the bank and the Royalist group known as the ‘Great Trust’ in 1659, one of the foundations of English deposit banking. The deed is signed by Mordaunt and also by Sir Thomas Peyton, who has borrowed money on the security of the coal farm. Documents relating to coal from this early period are uncommon.