Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
28 July 1919
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/418
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

    56/78 (page 52)
    we shall always remember your loyalty and gratify you when occasion shall offer.—Tvranslation. Written upon such a small piece of paper in order that it could be easily destroyed if the recipient should. be taken by year (1589). 1 p. oblong 4to, on vellum, Paris, 21 Jan. 1599, granting permission to the Sieur de la Ferte to hunt wolves and foxes, and to shoot birds and game with the arquebus in such places as he shall desire in consideration of his services, in spite of the ordinances forbidding such acts, which the King withdraws in his case, damaged nor of Canada, A. L.s. 2 pp. 4to, Parts, 17 Heb. 1751, to Monsieur Gradis, merchant at Bordeaux, of Canadian interest, VERY RARE “That astute Canadian Governor, La Galissoniére, in 1749, recognised the importance of the Ohio in relation to the Illinois and Mississippi, and sent Céloron, a Captain in the French service, to claim possession of the valley of the former river and its tributaries.”—-Bourinot’s Canada. La Galissoniére built Fort Rouillé as an attempt to control the trade of the Indians of the North, who were finding their way to the English fort at Choueguen (Oswego). Paris, 30th Dec. 1614, to the Treasurers-General at Caen: ‘Having made complaints, supplications and demands for the solace of his subjects, this is to inform the Treasurers that the terms of a warrant (doubtless for the collection of money) enclosed with this letter, are to be executed with diligence and care, ‘for the good of our service and our subjects.’” Signed by the King when a boy of thirteen. 22nd. Aug. 1775, toa Prince. J/mportant. Relative to the marriage of his sister, Marie Adelaide Clotilde Xaviére de France, with the Prince of Piedmont, which was celebrated that very morning in the Chapel of the Chateau de Versailles. Rochefoucauld, Duke de) Autograph Draft of his Letter (signed with the Duke’s monogram) to the King of France, Duke’s offer of his services to defend the unfortunate King before the Convention. The King of France was a prisoner in the Temple at this time. The letter is unsigned for political reasons, The Due de Liancourt, statesman and philanthropist, was President of the Tribunal of Clermont