Sales catalogue 568: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/113
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 568: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    998 FENELON (FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE, 1651-1715). Archbishop of Cambray. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (IN FRENCH) TO BARON KARG. 2 pp, 4te. Cambray, 27th November, 1714. £35 Alluding to an accident that has befallen him, and expressing anxiety about the Elector of Cologne who was seized with gout when passing through Cambray. This letter is unpublished. -The accident to which Fenelon refers caused his death six weeks later. 999 FENELON (FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (IN FRENCH) TO MONSIEUR MAGFOSSE, CURATE OF CATEAU. I page, Svo. 23rd May,-1705. £17 10s Referring to a matter of honour. 1000 FENN (SIR JOHN, 1739-1794). Antiquary. Edited the Paston Letters. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO [REV. JAMES GRANGER]. 3 pp. 4to. Hast Dereham, 20th June, 1773. £2 10s Describing a roll of portraits which had come into his possession and mentioning the Supplement to Granger’s ‘‘ Biographical History.”’ 66 : a roll of the Procession of Knights of the Garter in Q. Elizabeth’s time came into my possession. . . The procession is represented as moving along a Platform quite open to the eye, but on the side from you it consists of 82 arches with their proper architectural embellishments; in each arch are two por- traits, except in 5 where a single Person walks. . . As you front it the pro- cession moves from left to right, the Verger preceeds, then the poor knights; after them the officers of arms, the knights of the order next, then the officers of the order, Esquires, & Noblemen with the sword and lastly the Sovereign. The portraits are all between four & five inches in height, the Queen & Knights in the full habit of the order; the officers of the order in their proper robes, the Heralds, &c., in black gowns with their coats of arms over them, and the poor knights in their proper habits; over each knight of the order are his arms within the Garter & in a compartment below him are written in french his name, titles &c. between the 2 last arches you have a view of Windsor Castle, between all the others a delightful prospect of the Country, interspersed with Houses, Castles, River, Deer, Cattle, &e., &e. ‘‘ The beginning of the roll has the Queen’s Arms & the enclosed imperfect Latin verses.’’ Ete.
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