Sales catalogue 591: Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/133
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 591: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DOCUMENT SIGNED, ALSO SIGNED BY THOMAS GREY (REGICIDE) AND F. ALLEIN, ORDERING JOHN BARKSTEAD TO EXAMINE TWO MORTARPIECES IN THE TOWER. 4-page, folio. oth August, 1651. ALSO A LETTER SIGNED OF JOHN BARKSTEAD (REGICIDE), BEING HIS REPLY TO THE ABOVE. 1 page, folio. 15th August, 1651. Together, £3 3s Barkstead, who was originally a Goldsmith in London, became a parliamentary soldier, and in 1645 was Governor of Reading, later Governor of the Tower. He acted as one of the King’s Judges. On the Restoration he escaped to the Continent, was arrested, brought back and executed. Dramatist and Fabulist. Imprisoned at Sceaux, where he died. - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO ‘‘ MONSIEUR LE MAIRE ” (JEAN SYLVIAN BAILLY, MAYOR OF PARIS). It pp., ato,. (27th August,: 1700). £3 10s With reference to obtaining a reduction on the four years’ capitation ’’ demanded of him. 66 and Poet. LETTER SIGNED TO M. MIELLE, PROFESSOR OF FRENCH LITERATURE. ) I-page, ato. Parts, 25th. January, 1813. 15s (Trans.):—‘‘ Your other letters have also reached me and J am busy with the questions contained therein. I have seen with pleasure that your merit has been appreciated at Leyden and at Paris, and that your lectures have had the success I expected.”’ . To DAVID GARRICK. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO. DAVID GARRICK. A pp., 4to. ND. (Cirea..1 706); ; £10 10s Written to Garrick, and referring to the loss of his leg. ‘We were grievously disappointed at not seeing you in your way to Bath, but we shall not so readily forgive (if we happen to be here) your neglecting us at your return. . . ‘¢T saw by the papers that the ingenious Mr. Smith the Asopus of Covt. Garden had advertised my piece of the Commissary for his benefit, reduc’d into two Acts. . . I could not help thinking that doing it at all at this particular time was a little unkind, but that copying my works at the same time that I was loseing my limbs was rather inhuman, I have remonstrated to Mr. Beard and I believe with some warmth, intimating that if my poetical limbs wanted amputation the professors of his house were the very last people that I should chose for my surgeons.’ Ite.
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