Sales catalogue 530: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/85
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 530: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to be prepared, consisting of six dishes, avoiding all kinds of medicated food, and this supper and the riding beasts will be paid for out of our lord the king’s account as also the dinner which necessarily you will have to arrange for him at Riaseco the day he departs from Valladolid to Benavente, where the king will begin to live at hig own expense. . . ‘* As to the rest of the special dispositions, I must inform you that his Britannic Majesty does not desire to be known by any other name than that of Caballero Connok, and you will announce him as such on his arrival, on the journey and during his stay, so that all may have the same knowledge.’’ Ktc. AUTOGRAPH LEITER SIGNED; 3 pp, vo. Langham Hotel, 13° lune (circa, 1673), 12s 6d Concerning the promise of a gift of books. “. . . Now will you permit me to say (lest I lie under the black charge of ingratitude) that those valued works have never so reached me—very likely in consequence of the villainy of Publishers.’’ Ete. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT :~ ADDRESS “SIGNED; FROM™ THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF THE PROVINCE OF MARYLAND, CONGRATULATING QUEEN “ANNE (ON) TARO DERE AT OP ijie PRETENDER. 1 page, folio. Maryland, 16th August, 1708. Signed by Gover- nor John Seymour and Wm. Bladen, Clerk to the Council. ALSO THE ACCOUNT OF ALL THE “ORDINARY “LICENSES GRANTED IN THE PROVINCE OF MARYLAND, October, 1703, to October, 1707. Signed by Wm. Bladen, Clerk to the Council. 2 PD. tO. £28 ‘’ We your Majesty’s most dutifull and loyal subjects in this your Plantacon so farr distant from your Sacred Person were surpriz’d to hear the French king had equipt the Popish pretender with a vaine force to invade yor. Majesty’s Dominions; and reduce yor. happy subjects to the same slavery and misery those of that ambitious Monarch continually groan under; and overjoy’d that your Majesty’s viligant and wise provision had dispeld that small cloud of heat on the first sight thereof. That wretched instrument of yor. Majties. ancient and inveterate enemy to your kingdom & people, before he would discerne your Majties. Navall Force, making shamefull and speedy flight with his French and traiterous succours back to France with the wofull news of his discomforture.’’ Ete.
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