Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
09-10 November 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/968
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    A 2 453 7, 455 456 457 secret pride thereof too plainly appears, even in the great pretensions & pro- fessions of mean and despicable thoughts themselves. The height things are come to between ye Secretary & ye House, their marner of treating ye Councill, the Authority ye Speaker has assum’d of granting a Warrant, will all come fully to Thy knowledge . . . etc. his second visit to Pennsylvania. Penn, in his will, named him a Trustee of the Province of Pennsylvania. Coorer (William), Town Clerk of Boston, Massachusetts. L.s. March 22nd, 1770, to the Earl of Rochford : At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, duly qualified and legally warned, in public Town Meeting assembled at Faneuil- Hail on Thursday the 22nd day of March in 1770. Voted that the Honble James Bowdoin Esq., Dr. Joseph Warren and Samuel Pemberton Esq. A Committee appointed on the 13 Instant, to make representation of the late horrid Massacre in Boston by the Soldiery, be desired to transmit, by the Packet, to the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Rochford a printed copy of such Representation. Att(ested) William Cooper, Town Clerk. Westey (John) A. L.s. 1p. 4to, Manchester, March 31st, 1781: That should be always upon your mind, to carry the Gospel into new Places. There is room still for enlarging our Borders, particularly in Holderness .. . Westey (J.) A. L.s. 1p. 4to, London, Dec. 4th, 1784: It seems to me that nothing under Heaven is so likely to restore your Health as the Bristol Waters. I think you should not lose a day... a little weak in the folds Westey (J.) A. Ls. 1 p. 4to, London, Dec. 18, 1768: You have great reason to praise God, that he gives you to see your labour is not in vain. But this will naturally breed a doubt (which probably you have often found) whether you labour enough in the direct Work of God... weak in the folds Westey (J.) A. L.s. 1p. 4to, London, Oct. 10th, 1787, to John Heald of Dewsbury : _.. L answer once for all; if you settle Dewsbury House on the Conference Plan, without any alteration, I shall rejoice. But if that is not done, I dare not suffer any of our Preachers to preach in it any longer... Prozzi (Gabriele) A. L.s. 3 pp. 4to, 15th July, 1795, to Cecelia Thrale, who married J. M. Mostyn: | Mrs. Piozzi she have some intention to give an Addieu to Streatham Park for ever. But I was not pleased at all for such resolution, and passed all the Night very uneasy, and, in the morning I told to Mrs. Piozzi I won’t give it up Streatham Park for ever. So I resolved to keep Streatham for us. Only let the Garden, because the expenses are too great: to my Speculation and so improve the Park and get a very good Crop of Hay next year, which will pay me pretty well, and so the difference will consist in trifling things and in case you, and Mr. Mostyn, like to see Streatham we shall be very happy to see you again, and live Comfortable together ... etc. On the fourth page is an A.L.s. from Arthur Murphy, also to Cecelia Thrale
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