Sales catalogue 494: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/51
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 494: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Francis |I—continued. Emperor, and the King of England; stating that the Emperor had sent an envoy to ascertain his views, and though he had promised co- operation, he had for a long time heard nothing further from _ the Emperor until after a long interval he had sent a demand for help and asked for his fleet and 6,000 horsemen, and a large sum of money; that he had replied to this expressing astonishment that the Emperor should not have sent a proper Ambassador both to himself and the King of England to discuss these matters, and that he was not a banker to be able to produce so much money at so short a notice. Vite meetme of Henry VIIL and Prancis | on the “ Field of the Cloth eo: Geld; is reterred to by Shakespeare im his play of “ Henry VIII ’?:— ‘“ Those Suns of Glory, those two lights of men Met in the Vale of Andren, ’twixt Guynes and Arde.’’ Etc. 1471 FRANGIS Il (1543-1560). King of France. Husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. LETTER SIGNED (IN FRENCH) TO THE SIGNORY AND REPUBLIC OF GENOA. i pace, oblonstolo. ~Pontamebleau,, 28th” July, 1560.° With impressed seal. £21 Of great rarity, the first husband of the ill-fated Mary Queen of Scots, dying when only 17 years of age. Written the year after he came to the throne of France and within a few months of his death. Am imteresting “document, mm favour -of ‘Colonel: Samipetro, a Corsican, who has petitioned him concerning the refusal of their commissioners in Corsica to give him possession of his estate, etc., and other wrongs; also a recent decree that no Corsican shall take service with another Prince, and those who have done so must return in three months.
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