Sales catalogue 513: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/70
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 513: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Alba (Fernando Alvarez, Duke of)—continued. friend’s time, andi declares he cannot be left alone so many days, ‘‘ for I have great need of your presence here.’’ Affairs cannot remain in such a sinister state of calm: ‘‘ at some point they must burst.’? He adds: ‘‘ It is very necessary for you to meet me at the time, for I shail be lacking everything. I kiss the hands of the Sefiora Dofia Victoria.”’ 2219 ALBA (FERNANDO ALVAREZ, DUKE OF). ~ AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY THE GREAT oo OF ALBA, ADDRESSED TO SENOR VAZGUEZ. 24 pp., folio, Madrid, 11th April, 1577. Bound in tiaiivereen morocco, with portrait. | £25 Referring to the receipt of despatches enclosing petitions from soldiers; the action to be taken in respect of ‘‘ Molut’’ (presumably Marshal Blas de Montluc, the French commander-in-chief), m accord- ance with what the recipient reported as to the position of the King of Portugal; the movements of troops in Flanders, .etc. The Duke of Alba was the celebrated Spanish general under the Emperor Charles V and Philip II of Spain. In’ 1556-7 he successfully defended Naples against the Allied French and Papal Armies. He was sent by Philip II in 1567 to quell the insurrection which had broken out among the Protestants of the Low Countries. In 1580 he invaded Portugal, and after defeating the Portuguese forces. at the month of the Tagus, annexed that kingdom to the dominions of Spain. 2220 ALBEMARLE (GEORGE MONCK, ist DUKE OF, 1608-1670). Parlia- mentary General. Assisted to bring about the Restoration. LETTER SIGNED TO HENRY CROMWELL) SOs) OLIVER CROMWELL. , 4-page, folio. Cockpitt, 3rd June, 1660. £3 5s Of particular interest, written three days after the Restoration, advising Henry Cromwell as to his prospects of being able to retain his estates. Henry Cromwell lost his lands at the Restoration, but subsequently had his estates in Ireland restored.
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