Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/939
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    929 CRESSENER (George), Minister Plenipotentary to the Elector. A series of upwards of 70 A. Ls. c.1770—Porter (Sir James), Minister at the Court of Brussels. Upwards of 60 A. L.s. to R. Phelps, Under-Secretary of State—Dutens (Lewis) Nine A. L.s. from Turin to Phelps (a parcel) 930 HesketaH (Harriet, Lady) Five A.L.s. to Wm. Hayley, 1802; with two A. L.s. from Hayley to Lady Hesketh (7) 931 HocarraH (Jane), Wife of the Artist. A.L.s. 1 p. 4to, Chiswick, May 29, 1781, protesting very strongly against statements derogatory to her husband’s character and work 932 JEFFREYS (George, Lord), Notorious Judge. A Legal Opinion s. 4p. 4to, May 4th, 1674—Spartina (Capt. Thomas) A. L. s. 2pp. folio, 1653, to R. Blackburne, Secretary to the Admiralty, relating his experiences at sea with Prizes, etc. (both Sparling and Blackburne are frequently mentioned by Pepys)—JEFFREYS (Lord) Doe. s. on vellum, as Lord Chan- cellor, with seal 1688, with a Deed of Settlement, signed by Jeffreys, with seal, and L.s. of the same; and other Letters and Documents of the period (19) 933 LxEIcESTER (Robert Dudley, Earl of) Doc. s. 1 p. folio, Greenwich, 1568—SHREWSBuRY (Charles, Duke of) A. L.s. Rome, 1705, concerning the state of affairs in Europe; with others of Lord Villiers, Wm. Blathwayt, Duke of Albemarle, 1665, Earl of Middleton, 1684, George II, six Royal Sign Manuals relating to Cornwall, Jacob Tonson, Doc. s. Earl of Suffolk, 1612, and numerous other Letters of celebrities of the 16th-18th Centuries (two parcels) 934 LiTeRARY, ETC., including Tom Hood, Ducarel, John Newton, J. Halliwell-Phillipps, Payne Collier, Mrs. Gillman, letters to Hookham Frere mentioning Coleridge, Elizabeth Rowe, Sir Egerton Bridges, W. Goodwin, A. Murphy, J. Warton, Sarah Fielding, Robert Fielding, R. Southey, J. and H. Smith, etc. (a parcel) 935 MonmourH (Duke of) A collection of 29 Letters relating to the Monmouth Rebellion, and especially with reference to the Rev. John Hickes’s share in it for which he was executed in 1685; Hickes was a Nonconformist who was ejected in 1662, many of the letters are addressed to Dean Hickes of Worcester; the collection includes five letters from John Hickes written from prison, five letters from the Rev. R. Woodward, describing his visits to Hickes in prison, and an account of the execution by the Rev. R. Eyre, Chaplain to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, ete. (29) 936 Manuscripr Verses. The Man of Honour, Cromwell’s Ghost, The Sham Prophesy, Canterbury Chimes, and others, 18th Century (a parcel) 937 Manuscript Verses. “ You Lads and you Lassies, that Live at Longleat,’ 16 stanzas, 1p. folio, 1706; The Golden Age Retriev’d 3 pp. folio; Brent, a poem; and other (a parcel)