Sales catalogue 641: Maggs Bros

Date:
1937
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/171
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 641: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mary of Guise—continued. months before her official appointment as Queen Regent for her daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots). (‘Trans.):—‘‘ Mary the widow, Queen of Scotland and Governess thereof, to his magnificence Lord Viglius a Zuichem, President of the Privy Council of the Imperial Majesty in the provinces of Lower Germany, and Knight, and doctor of either law, in eternity of integrity of affection. ‘“Formerly, your Magnificence, to the most illustrious Queen of Hungary, Governess of Lower Germany, we gave letters, verily full of insults, intentionally by John Vinter, citizen of Berg, on Robert Landis and George Kincaid, Scotsmen, uncivilly inflicted ; which insults, indeed, we did not deem it necessary to enumerate to you in those letters, because we believe that you, whether from the reading otf the cited letters or by the authority of your office, have already understood them. Wherefore at present, we in friendship pray and beseech you, as a zealous lover ot mutual concord, that according to the integrity of your soul and its wellknown honesty you will assist these afflicted Scotsmen (of whom one is almost destroyed by the filth of the prison of Berg, but the other is almost brought to extreme starvation by the delay in action and demands on his ruined fortunes) with your favour and wisdom, and hasten the despatch of their causes to a good and just end. Since of your singular humanity we are surely confident that you will not desert these unfortunate and wretched merchants, so far as justice shall appear, on that account accept our kindly affection. In the meantime, your Magnificence may God grant that justice be done to the necessitous and afflicted. Farewell. Given at our royal palace at Edinburgh on the Kalends of January in the year of our Salvation 1554. The friend of your virtue, MARIE R.”’ War IN IRELAND. 135 MARY OF MODENA (MARIE BEATRICE D’ESTE, 1658-1718). Queen of James II. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED “M. R.” TO COMTE DE LAUZAN. 1 page, 4to. St. Germain, ce Dimanche. Circa 1690. With Seal. £10 10s Informing him she has received a letter from England, but doubts the news it contains until she hears from Ireland; also begging him to hasten the despatch of the help which the King of France had promised to the Jacobites in Ireland. (Trans.):—'I have just received a letter from England, which I am sending to you, not daring to send it to the King directly because I still doubt the news and shall doubt it until I have some myself from Ireland. However I flatter myself that some part of this may very well be true, and I am expecting confirmation of it every moment. In the name of God push forward the help which it has been decided to send to Ireland, as for lack of not following up the small successes we have, we may profit nothing at all from them; we have had so many misfortunes, that one can with difficulty believe in good news, but at last God will help us, and if only the King of France helps us, we may without a miracle return to England. This is the time to act, if it is lost, we are ruined. But I waste my time in telling you all this for you know it better than I, and after myself I think it touches you more than anyone in the world.”’ 136 MAY (PHIL, 1864-1903). Caricaturist. Worked for ‘‘ Punch.” AUTOGRAPH LETTER, WITH SKETCH IN PLACE OF SIGNATURE, TO SAM. SMITH. 14 pp., 8vo. Holland Park Road, 31st December, 1886. Also addressed envelope with sketch. £3 3s ‘‘Many thanks for your kindness in taking the trouble to help me. I[ send you back your list with the Spe marked that I would like to have. I will take the greatest care of them. ‘*T am sorry to say I am very unwell at the moment. My head is very bad. 1 am overworked and cannot get away from it, unless I break down altogether.’’ Etc.
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