Sales catalogue 525: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/80
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 525: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a a an ota nn 1520 ELIZABETH. Queen of England. DOCUMENT SIGNED ADDRESSED TO SIR HENRY SIDNEY (THE FATHER OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY). 1 page, oblong 4to. Greenwich, 25th April, 1566. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. xT): £75 Concerning some money due to the Earl of Sussex. ‘‘ Where now a good tyme past we gave order by our Ires addressed theron that all such sommes of money as shuld appere to be due unto our cousyn of Sussex. Upon the . . . examining of his reckoninge there, shuld be paid to his use to such as he did send . . . for that purpose.’’ Ste. Sir Thomas Radciiffe, third Earl of Sussex (1526-1583) returned to England from Ireland on Mary's death, hut was re-appointed Lord- deputy of Ireland; involved in a struggle with Shane O’Neill in Tyrone; employed to negotiate Queen Elizabeth’s marriage with the Archduke Maximilian, 1567; supported the project of the French match for Elizabeth both in 1571 and 1578. Sir Henry Sidney, to whom this letter is addressed, was thrice Lord Deputy of Ireland; crushed Shane O’Neill. He was the father of Sir Philip Sidney, the famous soldier, statesman and poet, and author of ‘* Arcadia.”’ 1521 ELIZABETH, Queen of England; and JAMES I of England and VI of Scotland (1566-1625). THE GREAT SEALS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH AND JAMES I, PRESERVED IN A WOODEN BOX WITH GLASS LID. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XII). Together, £45 1522 ESSEX (THOMAS CROMWELL, EARL OF, 1485-1540). Statesman. One of the most prominent characters in the reign of Henry Vili and immortalized by Shakespeare in his play of that title. DOCUMENT SIGNED ‘‘ THOMAS CROMWELL.” On 1 page, oblong 4to. 7th December *‘ anno Regni Regis Henrici Octavi Tricesimus.’’ With portion of seal. £36 Wolsey’s famous lines, in Shakespeare’s Play of Henry VIII were addressed to Thomas Cromwell. + O Cromwell, Cromwell Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served! my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.”’