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1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccc As you haue already sene the Emperours letters of credit, now wyll I declare what our commission is.

1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias 2 a Hee gaue them a Letter of credite.

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 137 He despatch'd him away in a frigat with letters of credit.

1729 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. Eccl. & Civil VIII. xvii. 453 The Duke..refused to give Ridolpho the Letters of Credit which he desired for the Courts of Rome and Madrid.

1774 Monthly Rev. Aug. 104 He..explains his disagreeing sentiments with that candour, which does him honour as a man; and as an author will serve as a letter of credit to every liberal and ingenuous mind.

1825 J. S. Buckingham Trav. among Arab Tribes xxviii. 581 Her ladyship expressed her own entire conviction of my really possessing the letter of credit presumed on, and of my being truly the person and the character which I professed to be.

1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lx. 55 (note) They complained that the ambassador had only a letter of recommendation in place of a letter of credit.

1902 Madame van Muyden tr. C. de Saussure Foreign View of Eng. xiv. 333 He was expecting letters of credit from the Grand Duke of Tuscany, whose ambassador he was expected to become.

1992 I. Friedman Question of Palestine (new ed.) Introd. p. xv The delegation..was armed with a letter of credit from Palmerston and left for the East.

1616 B. Jonson Mercurie Vindicated in Wks. I. 1005 I am their bill of credit still, that passes for their victuals and house-roome.

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 105 The partie to whom these Letters of Credit were directed.

a1639 D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 345 Your Lordship..must..send into Italy a Bill of Credit for so much money as may defray his charge into England.

1657 S. Lambe Seasonable Observ. 13 In any place that hath no Banke where they carry any Commodityes and sell them for ready money, how easily may they carry back the same money for a returne, and put it into their own Banke, and with a Ticket of credit there buy other Goods at home or abroad by exchange.

1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 11 Having one son at Venice, one at Noremberge, one at Hamburgh, and one at Dantzick, where Banks are, I desire four Tickets of Credit, each of them for a Thousand pounds.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 408 I tooke up 90 Crounes for the rest of my journey with letters of Credit for Venice.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi ii. App. 52/1 Had the Government been so settled..The Massachuset Bills of Credit had been like the Bank Bills of Venice.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxxvii. 315 Furnished with money and bills of credit.

1792 R. Bage Man as he Is III. lxxiv. 209 She then gave him a letter of credit upon Mons. Laborde, and wished him a good morning.

1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow II. xiii. 137 Give me my horse, or I shall lose the best case was ever entrusted to a lawyer—a gold watch worth forty pounds—bills of exchange—letters of credit—and a purse of guineas.

1871 Law Rep. in Bankers' Mag. (N.Y.) Apr. 738 The next day he received from the same Bank $200,000 more of like certificates, and paid for them at the same rate in currency and a ticket of credit by the Merchants' Bank in favor of the National Bank for $175,000.

1921 T. S. Eliot Let. 27 Apr. (1988) I. 448 For safety, you get the Letter of Credit for a much larger sum than you expect to need.

1998 Harvard Law Rev. 111 1425 These small projects included the commissioners' service in signing bills of credit.