Sales catalogue 628: Maggs Bros

Date:
1936
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/165
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 628: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    357 GARDINER (STEPHEN, 1483-1555). The Famous Bishop of Win- chester. Opponent of Wolsey, Secretary to Henry VIII, and Lord Chancellor under Mary I, whom he crowned. PRIVY .COUNCIE] LETTER SIGNED. BY 2SrEerareN GARDINER AND THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL. 1 page, folio. 30th January, 1554 (1555). With address and smail seal on fly-leaf. £32 A very fine Privy Council letter of the reign of Mary I, and bearing, in addition to the excessively rare signature of this famous Bishop of Winchester, the signatures of other great men of the period, including ADMIRAL LORD WILLIAM HOWARD, SIR WILLIAM PETRE, one of the principal Secretaries of State under four reigns; WILLIAM, 1st LORD PAGET, one of the executors of King Henry VI1; THOMAS GOODRICH, BISHOP OF ELY, formerly Lord Chancellor; WILLIAM PAULET, MARQUIS OF WINCHESTER, nominated by Henry VIII in his Will as one of the Council of Regency. 358 GASKELL (MRS. ELIZABETH C., 1810-1865). Novelist. FOUR AUTOGRAPH -LETIERS SIGNED. [O° Mh ANe MRS: sCi WABE. 21 pp. Sve. -Plymouth Grove, ¢c: 1352. £3 19s Regarding funds for a Society to help fallen women in which both Mrs. Gaskell and Mrs. Schwabe were interested; mentioning Dickens, Mrs. Stowe and other mutual friends, etc. « )) . 6 saw Mrs. Stowe after all. I saw her twice; but only once to have a good long talk to her; then I was 4 or 5 hours with her, and liked her very much indeed. She is short and American in her manner, but very true & simple, thoroughly unspoiled, & unspoilable. She promised (almost offered) to stay with us the two days she is allowing herself in Manchester, early in September, but I don’t know if she will, for she is not famous for keeping her engagements, as we know.’’ Etec. ; 359 GEORGE I (1660-1727). King of Great Britain and Ireland. LE ITER SUBSCRIBED. AND SIGNED “UN FRENCH) lO THE DUC. D ORLEANS. I'page, 4to. St. James’, 13th May, 1724. With silks and seals. ; : £4 4s Announcing the appointment of Horatio Walpole as English Ambas- sador to the French Court.
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