Sales catalogue 501: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/59
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 501: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    733 WORCESTER (EDWARD SOMERSET, EARL OF, 1601-1667). As Lord Herbert served for Charles I in South Wales and garrisoned Raglan Castle. Collection comprising :— 8 AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENTS SIGNED AND 7 DOCU- MENTS SIGNED. AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER and A DOCUMENT BEING A STATEMENT OF “ THE ESTATE OF EDWARD EARLE OF WORCESTER AS’ THE SAME WAS SURVEYED RETURNED AND SOLD ATT DRURY HOUSE.” Together, extending to 22 pp., 4to, and folio, and dated between 1641 and 1644. : £15 15s Important collection of documents being acknowledgments for large sums of money he had received from his father, for the use of the King. : The various sums loaned to the King amount to over £105,000. 734 WORCESTER (EDWARD SOMERSET, EARL OF). PWO LETTERS SIGNED TO PRINCE RUPERT. 2 pp., folio. Raglan Castle. 7th February, 1642, and 29th July, 1043. £5 5s Respecting some orders from Prince Rupert which Worcester assures him shall be carried out at the first opportunity, etc. The Earl of Worcester after the Restoration gave this time to mechanical experiments and published in 1663 his ‘‘ Century of Inven- tions,’’ in which he suggested a calculating machine and an hydraulic machine for drawing up water by Fire.