Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
16-18 February 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/898
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    102 103 104 105 106 A. L.s., L.s. and Does. 20 pp. folio, 4to and 8vo, 25 Jan., 1663 to 19 Oct., 1674, to Robert Clayton Bramston (Sir John, the younger) Lawyer and Biographer, Twenty-three A. L. s. 25 pp. folio and 4to, addressed to Sir R. Clayton and John Morris, from 29 Oct., 1662 to 20 Oct., 1679, some bearing the signed receipts of Anthony Bram- ston, son of Sir John, upon money matters, half brown MOrocco Mentions Sir William Wale and Sir Jokn Cutler. Speaks of his Beefes and Oxen. Talks of selling his farms ‘unless by marrying my sonn I could both save my land & credit ... Sir Rob. Clayton speaks as if he could propose a convenient match it would obleige me very much.’ Wuitairt (John) Archbishop of Canterbury, Correspondence with Sir John Boys of Canterbury, A. L.s. and Six L.s., two of the latter with long auto. postscripts, 10 pp. folio, Lambeth, 5th July, 1592 to 15th May, 1602 ; together with a Doc. s., 7th May, 1592, relating to the rectory and par- sonage of Leeds and the Chapel of Bromfield, Co. Kent, sm. folio, inlaid and bound in dark blue morocco, 1592-1602 CHARLES II. Contemporary MS. concerning the Penal Laws, 24 pp. folio, witha Paper giving the cost of keeping prisoners of war on board prison ships and in the depot at Dartmoor, in a folio album, half morocco INQUISITION. Various Papers in Spanish referring to the supres- sion of the Inquisition by Napoleon in Spain, 1808 ; French Revolution, Report signed by Rampon and Jacqueminot; Frederick Auguste king of Saxony Doe.s.; Prince ‘lalleyrand lL. s.; and a fragment of a printed German Almanach [Leipzig = Martin Landsberg 1486] (a parcel) NELSoNn (Admiral Viscount) A. L. s. 4 pp. 4to. Naples, 9 Oct., 1798, to Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, regret- ting that it had taken three months to refit the fleet : . . . We go to sea victualled for six months and in the highest health and discipline, I trust some allowance will ba made for me . . « Naples sees this Squadron no more, except the King calls fo: our help ... We proceed to Zante, Cephalonia and Corfu to see what can be done, if nothing, fly to Egypt, clap the Turks on tke back and put matters in the best train... A letter of very great interest, slightly weak in the centre Fold 3rd, 1802, to John Newby: regretting that kis health will not permit him to attend the meeting of the Marine Society, but he encloses £5 for the funds. In excellent preservation, with Papers relating to the Nelson Pension, Lady Hamilton’s Petition, etc. (5)
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