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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    of Queen Elizabeth’s household. AUTOGRAPH LEVIER SIGNED OO, MAS) EBay tes I page,.folio. ; “, The Courte,\) 10th Augustais 7a, £10 10s ‘‘ Whereas heretofore I did write unto yo. touchinge mattts. in controversie betwene you and Madame . . . I think the course of your doinges, wch. you meane to take to be very good, savinge in that you will, but yt. the corne in stryffe betwene you, muste be . . . in your barne. The weh. I thinke is not reason- able, consideringe that she and her husbande hathe had the land by lease and purchase this XIIT or XV yeares in quiet possession, and not by any tytell from you or yours, neyther was your clayme made therunto, but synthene the sowinge of the corne as I am informed. And for as muche you are bothe well contented to commit all matters to the order of seven honest men. I have thought good hartelie to pray out of bothe your possessions, untill your arbitrations have ended, or otherwise the Lawe ordered that weh. for bothe your sakes I woude be sory hit should come unto.”’ Etc. As Controller of Queen Elizabeth’s household, Sir James Croft would have come into contact with William Shakespeare when the latter was acting before the Royal Court. LIBERTY AND UTOPIANISM. ORIGINAL MS. BY CUNINGHAME WITH INTRODUCTIGN SIGNED: BY ‘HIM, BEING: AN ESSAY ON \* PI@E Rees? POBI MGA UOPIANISM:* ) Contained on some 32 pp., 4to. 1792. £10 10s A remarkably interesting manuscript, written in French, on liberty and political utopianism. In his introduction, Cunninghame writes :— (Trans.) :—‘‘ I was in Switzerland in 1792. My worthy and illustrious friend Lavater was publishing at that time a ‘ Collection of Miscellaneous Works.’ He asked me to put into writing for him my own ideas about Liberty, as opposed to the neology of the day which was growing daily stronger. . . This little essay was composed with this intention. Lavater published a German translation in his ‘ Collection,’ which was fairly well received. . . In 1795, when in Gotha, I had occasion to speak of this little manuscript. A scholar of that place to whom my ideas seemed instructive and useful, asked for a copy of it and published a second German translation. The original in French was never published.”’
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