Sales catalogue 579: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/123
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 579: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    converted, he has nothing to do with his former sins. Repentance is said to be ‘simply breaking off sins’; and ye L.C. apply all ye promises given with Baptism, ati once to Faith. ‘ Tho yr sins be as scarlet,’ etc. Thus, let a man have broken ye 7th commandment cohtinually, and on marriage, lose all temptation to that especial sin, ye Worlds calls him ‘reformed,’ ye Low Church, if he be able to patronize their Societies, regard him as converted, as a pious Xtian; and they re-instate him in his own opinion, just as much as if he had been a heathen before, and now for the Ist time heard of the Gospel.’’ Etc. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO (MAZARIN). 3 pp., folio. With superscription and seals. Dunkirk, 24th October, 1648. £7 10s Very interesting letter relating to the state of the Army and asking urgently for money to buy food and forage, as the troops were nearly starving and had to be sent back for lack of food. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO MY DEAR ELLE. 3% pp., svo. Leeds, 3rd January, N.v. ~~ £1 19s Describing the great success of one of his dramas. ‘“e. . . My drama was produced on Monday with brilliant success. It was well played in most of the parts. At the close the house called loudly for me. ‘fT am not fond of presenting myself personally, being of opinion that an author should figure in his works. But the determination to see me was so strong, that I yielded so far as to bow from a private box. Whereupon the gentlemen waved their hats and the ladies waved their handkerchiefs to me; pad it was quite a scene of enthusiasm. I thought for a moment I must be in france. ‘‘T think it is really a grand drama, though I wrote it, The people cry, and laugh, or sit hushed like mice or burst into phrenetic applause according to the situation.’’ Ete. AUTOGRAPH ECETTERT oIGNED CIN Gad glee yr DO) s ceLit BROTHER. I page, 4to. Florence, 1st August, 1676. £2 2s As to some money he had received from the auditor of the Nuncio, and concluding :— (Trans.):—‘‘T am sorry for all the troubles of our house. I do not khow Aaa . cay save that I forsee new ones and incessant. Blessed be God, since this Is His ihc?