Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Autograph Letters & Historical Documents. A. L. s. =autograph letter signed, one entirely in the handwriting of the signer. L. s.=letter signed, the signature only in the handwriting of the sender. AY: DP8: =as above, reading document for letter. Doc. s. { SIZES. MIXED. The Property of Miss Higerina Peckover, Sibalds Holme, Wisbech. 690 PENN (William) L. s. 14 pp. feap. folio, London, 8th 11mo[16]90, a joint letter to R. Pinder, J. Hubard and Jos. Peckover : ... It being my intention to go for America as soon as ye Lord opens my way, in whos orderings we are. I have begun to open my Shop againe, as I may call it and expose to sale my wares, weh. I have wth. an honest purpose of good to my native (but unkind) Country, so long and so injuriously to my selfe and family neglected... Goes on to refer to the infant and growing colony which has more than answered the character he gave it, in a carved oak frame 691 Prnn (W.) A, L.s. 13 pp. 16mo, London, 2, 7m. 1704, to Joseph Peckover, saying that he has to hasten out of town, but has left the deed with his (Penn’s) landlord, slightly weak in the folds Other Properties. 692 Foorscray, KENT. Court Rolls of the Manor of Footscray, 1664-1721, on 10 vellum rolls, oblong folio ; various Deeds relating to the Courtenay and other families ; etc. a@ parcel 693 OGLETHORPE (James) Colonist of Georgia, Printed Receipt, signed, 31st December, 1737, for serviceable arms and habilia- ments of war (which he undertakes to keep in good repair), to arm the Regiment of Foot now directed: to be raised for the defence of H.M. plantations in America, 1 p. folio, damaged in one fold *,* A VERY RARE SIGNATURE.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31652463_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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