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.

    98/134 page 88
    714 MARTINEAU (HARRIET). AUTOGRAPH LETTER: SIGNED: ** H.-M.”’ ) 4 pp., t12mo. Ambleside, 16th June, 1867. ‘£2 10s An interesting letter concerning the strangers who would persist in calling on her; the prospect of losing two-thirds of her income by railway trouble; and speaking of the insults she continuously receives from clergymen. “©, . It is so odd to see, in the beautiful Oxford clerical handwriting, assurances that I am coarse and masculine in face and manners ‘ as the writer has heard from my neighbours,’—that I am a ‘discontented, disappointed, miserable woman,’—that 1t is well that I am dying—though hell awaits me—for that [ ‘have done mischief enough.’ Etc., etc.—Finishing with scraps of Greek beauti- fully written.’’ Etc. 715 MARY I (1516-1558). Queen of England. Married Philip II of Spain. DOCUMENT SIGNED ‘‘ MARYE THE QUENE,’’ WITH ROYAL SIGN MANUAL, ADDRESSED TO SIR EDWARD WALGRAVE, MASTER OF THE WARDROBE. I page, oblong ‘Ato (vellum). Westminster, 25th March, 1550. With fine impressed seal. Preserved in a full morocco case, lettered on side and back. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. VI). £75 An exceptionally interesting document relating to Lenten cere- monies in her royal chapel, and ordering :— ‘‘Qne Yerde of purple vellet to be employed about our Paulmes and Paulme Sundaye next, and for the trymyng of brushes for the washing of Aulters in our Chapell,’’ to be delivered to Robert Basset, sergeant of the vestry. WAR AGAINST FRANCE. 710 MARY I. Queen of England. LETIER SIGNED TO THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY: 1 page, folio. Westminster, 2nd June, 1557. With impressed seal £52 10s A magnificent letter dealing with the declaration of war against France. he . We ._. sende you herew our proclamation of warre against the French Kinge, whiche our pleasr is to have kepte secrete untill the V Ith daye of this psent moneth, whiche shall be whitmondaye, or whiche days assembling the people togither, you shall publishe the said proclamacon . wine tenet although our proclamacon of warre be made against the Frenche, yet is there ino enemytie intended against Scotts, and therefore you shall cause commaundement to be given throughout all yor charge, that in respecte of the saide proclamacon, there be no hostilitie showed towarde them.’’ Ete.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3