Sales catalogue 573: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/117
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 573: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    637 HENRIETTA MARIA. Queen of Charles I of England. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ‘‘ HENRIETTA MARIE R.’’ 13 pp., 4to. St. Germain-en-Laye, 23rd July, 1645. £30 Written to Cardinal Mazarin, thanking him for the proofs of affection he has given her, and particularly for the money which he has offered her. On escaping to France the previous year she opened negotiations with the Cardinal and obtained the promise of his help. (Trans.) :—‘‘ Having already on several occasions had such material proofs of your affection towards me, that I should think I was wronging the return I have for it, if by all the means in my power, I did not show you my gratitude for it: and only having these of writing for the present. I will make use of them to express my thanks to you: and particularly for the last obligation which I have to you for the assistance of money which you have offered to me through Com- mander de Souvré, it is a generosity which I shall never forget.’ Etc. WITH 25 SIGNATURES. 638 HENRIETTA MARIA. Queen of Charles I of England. DOCUMENT SIGNED, BEING THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT OF LOUIS BELIN AND HENRIETTA OF PLANCY. Pupp., 1olio, \harniss14theAugust; 11655). £19 19s A most interesting and very fine document, containing no less than 25 signatures, including the rare signatures of Henrietta Maria; her daughter Henrietta, afterwards Duchess d’Orleans (also an exceed- ingly rare autograph); Lord Jermyn, and other notabilities, mostly French, of the period. ROYALIST DEFENCE OF SCILLY ISLANDS. 639 HENRIETTA MARIA. Queen of Charles I of England. LETTER SIGNED AND SUBSCRIBED. I page, 4to. Paris, 7th July, 16409. £13 10s — Written the year that Charles I was executed, and concerning the provisioning of the Scilly Islands still held by the Royalists ; also men- tioning Charles II, ‘‘ the King my son.”’ (Trahs.) :—‘‘ The Scilly Isles having need of some provisions of food such as corn, beef, lard, biscuits and others, and the task of providing them having been
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