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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    dent of the Royal Society. DOCUMENT SIGNED. I page, oblong 4to. 30th December, 1672. 18s ‘‘ Received then of the officers of ye Tally Court one Tally conteyning ye sume of two hundred and fifty pounds levyed upon ye tenths of ye Clergie within the Diocesse of Saxe. Due at Christmas last 1672 and is due and payable unto mee for one Quater of a yeare ended at Christmas last aforesaid upon my annuity or pencon of one thousand pounds per An granted to me by his Maties letters patent under ye greate seale of England.” 22 es, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO ‘‘ DEAR ROWLEY.”’ 4 full pages, 8vo. Fitzroy Square, 4th September, 1877. £1 5s Mentioning that he was going off for a holiday with Rossetti, and then continuing :— 66 The Milton-Cromwell picture is making progress, though but for this interruption it would have been nearer completion. I am now thoroughly interested in it however, and as I usually do in such case I am elaborating certain points which I never thought about at first—but which will make it very interesting to the ordinary viewer, I “hope. ‘* My chief labour is with an old map of Savoy of the time—or made to look like such—which was a somewhat troublesome problem for I have to make the ‘Pais de Vaud ’ not only visible which the perspective makes difficult but to make it close to Cromwell’s fingers.’’ Ete. BROWNE (SIR RICHARD, 1605-1683). Diplomatist. Resident at the French Court of Charles I. and II. LETTER SIGNED AND SUBSCRIBED TO ‘“ MR. SECRETARY LONG.”’ Peon, touo,. Paris, goth October,1640. £5 5s Interesting letter, reporting Cromwell’s losses in Ireland, and as to the state of. affairs in Scotland. ‘‘In England (notwithstanding they doe industriously keepe the News of Ireland very private), yet they write from thence that Cromwell hath lost 6,000 by the sword and 2,000 by sicknesse. . . . They write like that the Marquis of Ormonde is master of the Field, and that Fairfax looks towards Scotland as if they feared some storm from the North.’’ Ete.
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