Sales catalogue 611: Maggs Bros

Date:
1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/148
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 611: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    8/136 page 2
    531 ALEXANDER III (died 1181). Pope. Canonised Thomas a Becket. PAPAL) BULL, I page, 4to. (Vellum). Circa 1180. £5 5s Confirming the patronage of various churches to the Abbot and Convent of Truart. 532 AMERICA. BELCHER (JONATHAN, 1681-1757). Governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey. g LETTERS SIGNED BY GOVERNOR BELCHER, TO VISCOUNT TOWNSHEND, SECRETARY OPM STATE CAND THE terior WILMINGTON, LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL. 57 pp., 4to. Boston, 1732-1738. £21 An extremely important series of letters entirely relating to affairs in Massachusetts. He goes into details regarding difficulties with the Assembly ; the difficulty of obtaining money for the public treasury; the necessity for holding a Fort at Pemaquid; repairs to other fortifica- tions concerning which he expects trouble with the Assembly ; matters relating to the “‘ little colony of Rhoad Island ’’; the discovery of Rock Iron Ore, and also concerning Colonel Dunbar, Lieut.-Governor of New Hampshire, whom Belcher suspects of intentions to discredit him in England. 333 AMERICA. (BOSTON, 1737). ORIGINAL PETITION ADDRESSED TO THE EARL OF WIL- MINGTON, AND SIGNED BY SAMUEL MATHER, PASTOR OF THE NORTH CHURCH IN BOSTON; THOMAS PRINCE OF THE SOUTH CHURCH; SAMUEL CROOKSAY OF NEW SOUTH CHURCH; CHARLES CHAUNCY OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN BOSTON; AND SEVERAL OTHERS. £10 10s An interesting document being a Petition in favour of the reten- tion of Governor Belcher, and repudiating the malicious libels pre- tended to be written from Boston concerning the appointment of a new Governor. 66 . We Ministers of the Gospel, and Pastors of Churches in His Majesty’ s Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in'‘and about Boston, crave Leave by the Hand of the Agents for the Province, humbly to address ourselves to your Lordship and to entreat your powerfull Favour for the good People of New England, and for the Churches of it, in which the King’s Person, and Family, me Ministers are constantly and ardently pray’d for, with one Heart and olce. . “We look upon ourselves obliged humbly to address your Lordship in this manner, because we have lately seen in some of the publick Prints, what we must call a malicious Libel, pretended to be written from Boston, declaring to the World, ‘ An universal J oy thro’out this Province upon the news of His Majesty’s appointing a new Governour over us; more especially among the better Sort of People, and Ministers of all Sorts.’ Than which there could not have been pub- lished a greater Calumny and more injurious Falshood: And we beseech your erat dant to excuse us this zealous Vindication of ourselves and our People from 1 a ‘
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3