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Miscellaneous & No Location Given 1-100


Ü	Miscellaneous 101-200

Location

Date

Source

Lot No.

Text

Surnames

Europe

1860

Dominic Winter 20 June 2001

337

The travel diary of Ernest Gye 1860, approx. 109pp, describing in considerable detail a trip he undertook to mainland Europe through Antwerp, Cologne, Bonn, and thence through Italy to Milan and Venice. Written in a neat hand, some damp staining but text is legible throughout, disbound, 4to, Ernest Gye was the eldest son of Frederick Gye, who at this time was Manager of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Ernest married the celebrated opera diva Emma Albani in 1878 and went on to succeed his father at Covent Garden. In this diary he makes some interesting observations, particularly of his experiences in Venice, making particular reference to the smells of the canals

Gye

Albani

No Location

1699, 1795

Bloomsbury 11 May 2000

Monmouth (Charles Mordaunt, third Earl of Peterborough and first Earl of, Admiral, General and diplomatist, 1658-1735) Bond to Joseph Haskin Stiles for ''ffour Thousand and One hundred pounds'', D.s. and sealed, manuscript, docket on verso, slightly stained, folds, browned, 420 x 325mm., 19th September 1699 To the Burial of Sarah Barne's Child, manuscript bill, folds, frayed, 9th July 1795; and 4 others, v.s. (6). #50-75

Monmouth

Stiles

Barnes

No Location

1747

Bloomsbury 11 May 2000

Malthus (Sydenham, father of Daniel Malthus & grandfather of Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus, author of ''Essay on Population'', fl. 1730-47) Will, manuscript fair copy, 3pp., last f. torn and repaired with tape, slightly browned, folio, 1st March 1747. N.B. ''My Books and prints which I give to my son Daniel Malthus''. Written in the same year as his son Daniel, matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford. #60-80

Malthus

No Location

1824

Bloomsbury 11 May 2000

Genealogy.-., Barkerville pedigree, manuscript, 6pp. excluding blanks, slightly foxed, watermarked 1824, folio, c. 1824; and a small quantity of others, miscellaneous including an A.L.s. from John Pitt, second Earl of Chatham (1756-1835), v.s., v.d. (sm. qty). #50-75

Barkerville

Pitt

No Location

1590-1715

Bloomsbury 23 Nov 2000

Heraldry.- Brooke (Ralph, York Herald, 1553-1625), Sir Edward Walker, Garter-King-of-Arms, 1612-77, Sir Henry St. George, the younger, Garter-King-of-Arms, 1625-1715 & John Anstis, Garter King-of-Arms, 1669-1744.Collection of personal papers and documents of four English heralds, 62 manuscript documents, judgements and pedigrees, some autograph, c. 500pp., in secretary and chancery hands, a few coats-of-arms (mostly pen and ink, 2 hand-coloured), folds, browned, some tears, some edges frayed, disbound, in a modern cloth case, from the libraries of George, Lord Macartney and Sir Thomas Phillipps, (ms. 13390, 13432), folio and v.s., [c. 1590-1715]. Estimate: £3000 - 4000. Sale price: £3000 + 15% buyer commission. ***Includes:- 1) Brooke (Ralph) [Pedigrees], autograph manuscript, 8pp. and small slip, 1590. 2) Ordinance (An) of appareyll for ladys & of gentlewomen during the tyme of there Mourning after their estates, manuscript, together 2 1/2pp., [c. 1600]. 3) Walker (Edward) [2 Judgements of Title], 25th February 1669 - 15th April 1671; Memorandum, [c. 1650], autograph manuscripts, together 3 1/2pp. with conjugate blanks. 4) Henry Frederick (Prince of Wales, eldest son of James I, 1594-1612) [Copy of the Charter creating Prince Henry, Prince of Wales], 1 1/2pp., tears along folds, [c. 1610]. 5) St. George (Sir Henry) Petition to Queen Anne requesting that Sir John Vanbrugh be appointed Garter King-of-Arms on his retirement, L.s., manuscript, 1p., [c. 1712]. 6) Anstis (John) Pedigree of Hollis, autograph manuscript in Latin, 2 1/2pp., [c. 1720]; and another, an autograph manuscript annotation on a note, a determination of the title, Baron Thame. A fascinating insight into seventeenth century heraldry through documents and notes of four English heralds, and other collections. The documents and pedigrees touch on numerous people such as Lady Anne Clifford (1590-1676), Henry, Prince of Wales,

Brooke

Walker

St George

Anstis

Macartney

Phillipps

Vanburgh

Hollis

Thame

Clifford

No Location

1832

Dominic Winter 8 Mar 2001

425

Ecclesiastical Heraldry. Manuscript entitled 'Arms of some religious houses in England and Wales from Tanner's Notitia Monastica' 1832, composed by Frederick Conway Montague and containing 198 fine hand coloured coat-of-arms, together with ms notes etc, including a hand coloured crest of the dedicatee, Edward Goddard (1761-1839) and a manuscript inscription signed F C M, as well as a series of manuscript notes on the various arms depicted, blue morrocco binding with tooled decorative borders to covers, spine slightly rubbed, bookplates of E Philip Shirley, the Ettington Manuscript Library and George H Viner, also containing a loosely inserted 4pp Als relating to the work F.C. Montague (1805-1891) the son of George Montague, the ornithologist, was a designer of book plates - the Shirley example extant on this volume being one of them. He also designed for Birket Foster, Charles Keane and Edward Routledge. (1) £100-150

Montague

Goddard

Shirley

Viner

Foster

Keane

Routledge

No Location

17th-19th century

Dominic Winter 11 Apr 2001

398

Marriage Settlements. Collection of more than forty documents, 17th-19th c., detailing marriage settlements, a number refer to very large amounts of money, and one document, of 15 vellum sheets, mentions 'the fortune of Miss Charlotte Nelthorpe', others refer to and list household furniture and effects, and one mentions a quantity of early share certificates. A fascinating collection which will yield considerable new information on the transactions which preceded marriage in former days. (40+) £100-150

Nelthorpe

No Location

17th/18th Century

Dominic Winter 20 June 2001

365

Manuscript notebook. Late 17th/early 18th c. approx. 96pp. neatly written in one hand, largely relating to religious matters and mentions quakerism, contemp. goatskin with worn remains of orig. dye colour and painted decoration, indistinct initials 'W A' applied to upper cover and the date '1705'? to lower cover, 4to Possibly belonged to William Alkson, whose name appears on the front pasted down.

Alkson

No Location

1633

Bloonsbury 21 June 2001

Wortley (Sir Francis, poet, 1591-1652). Beaumont (Sir Richard, of Whitley, Yorkshire) Enfeoffment of property "unto my cosyn Thomas Beaumont Sonne & heir apparent. unto Sir ffranccis Wortly of Wortly", manuscript fair copy, 4pp., docket on verso, 3 small holes along folds, folds, a little browned, 400 x 305mm., 30th November 1630; and 2 others, indentures, including Thomas Beaumont, D.s., tears, framed and glazed, 203 x 550mm., 26th September 1633 (3). N.B. "Wood describes Wortley as an 'ingenious gentlemen,' who trod 'in the steps of his worthy ancestors in hospitality, charity, and good neighbourhood.' He was a friend of Ben Jonson, and contributed to 'Jonsonus Virbius' (1638)."-DNB. £100-150

Wortley

Beaumont

No Location

1661-1668

Bloonsbury 21 June 2001

Slailen (John) The accompts ffor Raventor, manuscript, title and 201/2pp. excluding blanks, pp. ruled, a few blank ff. loose, 2ff. of manuscript working loose, original calf, rubbed, dusty, 1 metal catch only of 2, folio, 1661-68. £80-120

Slailen

No Location

1870

Bloonsbury 21 June 2001

Genealogy. Pearce (Horace, genealogist) Records of Family Ancestry, manuscript, 1211/2pp. excluding blanks, a few family names heading pedigrees with illuminated initials, mostly written on rectos, index at beginning with small tear repaired with tape, 4 printed pedigrees tipped-in, some ephemera loosely inserted, original calf, gilt, slightly rubbed, upper cover detached, lacks spine, m.e., folio, c. 1870. £120-180

Pearce

No Location

1880

Bloonsbury 21 June 2001

Heraldry. Weston (Walter J.) The St. George's Roll in Messrs Greenstreet & Russell's Reference List. No. 8, manuscript, c. 255pp., 9pp. of manuscript notes loosely inserted, some ff. excised, original cloth-backed boards, rubbed, manuscript label on upper cover, sm. folio, c. 1880. £100-150

Weston

No Location

1887

Bloonsbury 21 June 2001

Genealogy. Cokayne (George Edward, Clarenceux King of Arms, genealogist, 1825-1911) Genealogy of Fletcher and other families, autograph manuscript, a few insertions in other hands, 15pp. excluding blanks, presentation inscription to Herbert Fletcher, edges ruled, hinges a little weak, original cloth, joints splitting, head and tail of spine chipped, oblong 4to, 1887. N.B. "This book was compiled by-George Edward Cockayne, Clarenceaux King of Arms 1894-1911. Hebert Fletcher." £100-150

Cokayne

Fletcher

No Location

18th/19th century

Dominic Winter 25 July 2001

307

Banking. Group of documents 18th/19th c., including the sale of a chamber in Lincolns Inn and other property following the bankruptcy of William Hamond, goldsmith and banker, plus a letter from Thomas Coutts relating to victualling and navy bills purchased, a letter from the Governor of the Bank of England relating to a Royal visit in 1853, a letter from Thomas Baring head of Baring Brothers in 1890 and various other documents. The deed of sale is particularly interesting in that Hammond was a partner in the Banking firm of Atwell and Hammond which went out of business in 1722 as a result of the South Sea Bubble, and his own bankruptcy would probably have been triggered by this same event.

Hamond

Coutts

Baring

Pedigrees

1816

Dominic Winter 31 Jan 2001

440

Heraldry Manuscript, Monumenta Maiorum, A Record of Ancestors, Paternal & Maternal, for 8 Generations, with the Blazon of their Arms, n.d. early 19th c., title page, 34 numbered pages, including one index leaf, well executed pedigrees in ink, with numerous pen and ink coats-of-arms heightened in watercol., together with additional 19th c. printed pedigrees and notes inserted to rear, all contents loose, half vellum, spine partly split at joints, folio Pedigrees inc. the names of Edwards, Heathcote, Lindsay, Dalrymple, Campbell, Lesly, Mackenzie, Montgomery, Gresly, Bradshaigh, Guise, Howe, Cunningham, Hamilton, Murray, Dick, Bowyer, Walcot, Clerke, Oakley, Scrope, Bromhead, Cooper, Turner, Beale, Newell, Parker, Chinn, Hayward, Emmes, and Hungerford etc. Paper with watermark, dated 1816 (1) £80-120

Pedigrees

17th century

Dominic Winter 31 Jan 2001

445

Manuscript Pedigree. A fine 17th c.English manuscript pedigree, 37 leaves in two sections (pages numbered 1-25 and 44-55), the first part possibly mid 17th c., with one half-page hand col. armorial bearing (fol. 21) relating to a memeber of the Ogle family, showing arms, supporters and crest of bull's head above ducal coronet, with motto "prenez en Gre", inc. several smaller hand-col. coats of arms (two excised), the second part probably earlier 17th c., with numerous small uncol. coats-of-arms, bound with several additional m.s. pedigrees 17th/18th c., all contained in 19th c. half morocco, slightly rubbed at extrems., slim folio The volume includes genealogical information relating to the families of: Anstie, Strangwish, Sackvile, Shirley, Stoughton, Ormislow, Ogle, Heppell, Bertram, Walpoole, Ratcliffe, Stanley, Latham, Mohun, Wriothesley, Beauchamp, Beauchamp, Spencer, Demsey, Stewart, Nevill, Marshall, Roger Bigod Earl of Norfolk, Giffard Earl of Buckingham, Berkeley, and Molineux, etc. (1) £200-300

Unknown

1764

Bloomsbury 23 & 24 Apr 1997

190

George III, (King of England, 1760-1820) Document signed, pension of #180 to John Conrad Stucke for services in the late war in Germany, signed George Grenville, Lord North and James Harris, manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank, folds, browned, St. James's Palace, 28th September 1764; and 18 others including 7 Exchequer receipts, folio (19). #60 - 80

Stucke

Grenville

North (Lord)

Harris

Unknown

16th Century

Bloomsbury 17 Sept 1998

Hervey or Harvey (William, Clarenceux King of Arms, d. 1567) & Gibbon Goddard, Recorder of Lyme. Heraldic & Genealogical Miscellany, manuscript in at least two different hands, 41 1/2pp., (c. 1560-95) bound with Glover (Robert, Somerset Herald, 1544-88) Regula Aurea, Pars secunda, autograph manuscript, 52pp., (c. 1600), 2 parts in 1, browned and foxed, new endpapers, modern cloth, slightly soiled, some edges a little frayed, sm. folio #120-180 Slip tipped-in at beginning ``I believe Hervey Clarenciex began this book and Guibon Goddard Recorder of Lyme continu'd it. MS''

Hervey

Gibbon

Glover

Unknown

1843-1847

Bloomsbury 17 Sept 1998

Prison Records.- Transportation.- Peter Mottram, James Bowles, Thos. Dabb & Chas. Walker sentenced to transportation, printed forms with manuscript insertions, 6pp., ruled in red, tears along folds, browned, edges frayed, folio, 13th & 14th July 1843. (4). #150-200 Four records detailing the criminal activites of four youths below the age of 16, convicted for stealing and sentenced to between seven and ten years transportation. Thomas Dabb (13) and Peter Mottram (15) were sent to the ``Philanthropic Institution'', and James Bowles (13), after having served in a ``Penal class, dress and diet'' for ``creating disorder in school by drawing on his slate and passing it round the class, noisy when locked up in R. ward'' was ``Removed to Millbank Prison Prison, previous to transportation having been reported as incorrigible. Charles Walker (15), whose ``Father a silk weaver in constant employment... has three brothers and two sisters... was guilty in participating in the Burglary for which Peter Mottram 188. was also convicted... and sentenced to Ten years transportation. 1st Jany 1847. Embarked on board the Ship `Thomas Arbuthnot' for Port Phillip (Melbourne Harbour).''

Mottram

Bowles

Dabb

Walker

Unknown

1671/2

Bloomsbury 6 May 1999

Flamsteed (John, steward of the Fee of Duffield, relative of the Astronomer Royal of the same name, fl. 1667-72) Exemplification of the small Court Roll of the Fee of Duffield, manuscript document signed, on vellum, in Latin, folds, slightly browned, 160 x 310mm., 7th March 1671/2. #40-60

Flamsteed

Unknown

1717-1720

Bloomsbury 6 May 1999

Holford (Lady Elizabeth, widow of Sir William Holford, d. 1720) Copy of the Lady Holfords Will and Codicills 1717. She Dyed Novr: the 3d. 1720, manuscript fair copy, 69pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, a little browned, original gilt panelled calf, title stamped within border on upper cover, rubbed, upper hinges splitting, folio, 2nd November 1720. #80-120

Holford

Unknown

1789-1830

Bloomsbury 6 May 1999

Jackson (Randle, parliamentary counsel of the East India Company and of the Corporation of London, 1757-1837) Commonplace Book, manuscript, c. 200pp., a few pp. in cypher, some newspaper cuttings mounted, ink ownership signature on first leaf, bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, upper cover detached, spine split, 1789-1830; and 3 others, 8vo & sm. 4to (4). #50-75

Jackson

Unknown

1812

Bloomsbury 6 May 1999

Abernethy (John, surgeon, 1764-1831) Fine large medical certificate signed twice, stating that Peter Wyatt had diligently attended Abernethy's anatomy courses, with a footnote attesting the student's further attendance at courses of dissection and surgery, etching with stipple engraving by Joseph Strutt, the central panel between a flayed figure and skeleton completed in manuscript, 300 x 310mm., very slight browning, May 1812. #100-150

Abernethy

Wyatt

Strutt

Unknown

1808

Bloomsbury 11 Nov 1999

133

Cookery. - Jordaine (Mrs) Family Receipts selected and transcribed by...for the use of Mrs W. Skiron in the year 1808, manuscript in several hands, 49pp. including index, c.287 culinary recipes, a few ff. detached, printed "Directions for Using Captain Warren's Cooking Pot" inserted, a number of other recipes loosely inserted, original reversed sheep, worn, lacking backstrip, 1808 and later; and another 19th century recipe book, 4to & 8vo (2). #70 - 100

Jordaine

Skiron

Warren

Unknown

1938-1946

Bloomsbury 11 Nov 1999

149

Steer (F.W., Maltravers Herald Extraordinary, archivist, 1912-78) Notes and extracts concerning the family Stainforth and their alliances, manuscript with typescript insertions, in two different hands, titles and 50pp., excluding blanks, 3 hand-coloured coats of arms, pedigrees, many entries initialled "F.W.S." and dated, many mounted or tipped-in, ruled in red, slightly browned, original vellum-backed boards, watercolour coat of arms on upper cover, folio, 1938-46 #40 - 60

Steer

Stainforth

Unknown

18th/19th century

Bloomsbury 11 Nov 1999

201

COWPER FAMILY.- COWPER-TEMPLE (WILLIAM, Baron Mount-Temple, 1811-88) CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO THE COWPER-TEMPLE FAMILY, including:- a quantity of letters from his ?elder brother, Spencer Cowper writing from Paris, a poem addressed to Spencer Cowper in the form of a letter, "Spencer, you wretch, for tis no joke; The very next time I'm on guard" first and last lines; Grenville (William, Baron Grenville, statesman, 1759-1834); Gladstone (W.E., Prime Minister, 1809-98); Doyle (Richard, artist, 1824-83); Locker-Lampson (Frederick, poet, 1821-95); Lamb (Frederick, third Viscount Melbourne and Baron Beauvale, 1782-53; Brougham (Henry, Baron Brougham and Vaux, Lord Chancellor, 1778-1868); Wilson (James, politician and political economist, 1805-60); Herbert (John Rogers, portrait and historical painter, 1810-90); Jones (Owen, architect and ornamental designer, 1809-74), folds, slightly browned, v.s. (qty). #200 - 300

Cowper

Temple

Grenville

Gladstone

Doyle

Locker-Lampson

Lamb

Brougham

Wilson

Herbert

Jones

No Location

1799-1808

Bloomsbury 22 Nov 2001

Dowdeswell family. Cash Book, manuscript, 41pp. excluding blanks, ruled in red, contemporary calf, gilt, red morocco label on upper cover, folio, 19th January 1799 - 17th September 1808.

Dowdeswell

No Location

1831

Bloomsbury 22 Nov 2001

Miller (Philip) The Gardeners Kalendar, manuscript fair copy, 157pp., ink inscription in another hand: "Mary Anne Mole My dear Fathers copy of Millers Gardeners Calendar 1831", slightly browned, hinges weak, contemporary calf, gilt title on upper cover: "Miller's Gardeners' Kalendar", slightly rubbed, joints splitting, folio, 1831

Miller

Mole

No Location

1716

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one page vellum document dated 1716. It measures 10 inches long by 14 inches wide. It is an admission however is written in what I believe is Latin. It has been signed by Lord of the Manor John Meadows. There are two receipts attached to the document which measures 4 inches long by 7.25 inches wide. These detail the receipt of monies paid. The document has the original blue revenue stamp attached. Between Elizabeth Honne?, vid. and Thos ffryer, gen. Place name - Witnesham?

Honne?

ffryer

Meadows

No Location

1867

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Vellum Deed of Covenant 1867 .C J Plastow Esq and His Sureties to Miss Baxter & Others , For Further Securing 4 Mortgage Debts of £1850,£17900,£22.000,£5000 ,& Interest Transferred by Deed of Even Date of Active Insurance Premium . This is on the Outside of the document . There are 5 Pages in all with 5 Red seals that are Signed against along the bottom where the 5 pages are fastened together by a red ribbon threaded through them . The Inside of the First page has 5 various Life Assurance Companies of England and Scotland named with Various Sums assured and there Premiums detailed . There is a Second part under this with 1 more Insurance Policy and premium detailed . There are in the Top Left Corner of All Pages a Blue Seal with 10/- and the English Lion & Unicorn upon it with a Small square of what looks like Silver within it , these also have Date Stamps with various dates and London & a Crown .The Last Page says This Indenture , and has the names of various people and their locations such as Paris , London etc and presumably their standing in their community there Gender and relevance to the Document .

Plastow

Baxter

No Location (Possibly Berkshire?)

1700

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one page vellum document dated 18 October 1700 and a one page letter of the same date. The document is very large and measures 26 inches long by 32.5 inches wide. The letter measures 6.5 inches long by 12 inches wide. Both documents are beautifully written and the first letter of "T" on this is ornately written. The document deals with a quantity of land and property being divided up to eleven people, namely John Lane, Elizabeth Lane, Edmund Wilder, Mary Wilder, John Webb, Anne Webb, Als turner, Jane Webb, Samuel Duarrington William Howard and another I can not read. The document retains the original blue revenue stamps and nine red wax seals with the signature contained adjacent to them.

No Location

1811

Dominic Winter 11 Dec 2002

430

Scarce printed paper indenture with manuscript insertions, dated March 19th 1811, binding James Barley as an apprentice to Thomas Holt, Master Mariner, with details of the draconian terms, including a ban on gambling, visiting ale houses and detailing payments of forty pounds to be made over a three year period, some weakness in the folds, probably caused by the fact that the apprentice had to have the document about his person at all times while on board ship, with contemporary endorsements of his three payments to verso, wood cut engraving of a sailing ship to the top left hand corner of document, signature of Holt and mark of Barley to the lower right hand corner Scarce. Documents of this nature rarely if ever appear on the market. A particularly interesting aspect of this document is that the section referring to parental consent has been crossed out, indicating that James was either an orphan or from the poor house.

Barley

Holt

No Location

1581-1625

Bloomsbury 20 Jun 2002

Weston (Richard, first Earl of Portland, Lord Chancellor, statesman and diplomat, 1577-1635) Indenture between Sir Richard Weston and Edward Stokes of the tithe of corn, grain etc. of the "Lordshipp of Longbarnes", D.s. "Richard Weston", manuscript on vellum, folds, wax seal, 2nd November 1612; and 8 others relating to Longbarnes, v.s., v.d., 1581-1625 (9). In 1620/21 Weston was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer and after Buckingham's assasination pursued a policy of non-intervention in foreign affairs, principally on the grounds of cost.

Weston

Stokes

No Location

1769

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Dated May 3rd 1769 - Mortgage Deed written on paper. Two red seals at bottom of the page. Revenue stamp at side of page. Unfortuately, due age, there is 2 small holes in middle where the fold is. Some slight discolouring but generally complete. Between John Cowan? and John Walton

Cowan

Walton

No Location

1771

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1771 KINGS COURT BENCH JUDGEMENT. Document drawn up in 1771 BEING THE 11th YEAR OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE III on VELLUM. Hand written it gives details of the Session of the Term of HOLY TRINITY - GIVING JUDGEMENT ON THE CASE OF A HOUSE AT BRAMPTON AND THE DISPUTE BETWEEN WILLIAM BARNARD, ELI SMITH AND LATITIA HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH WALPOLE, JOHN ROYSON AND HIS WIFE. GUARANTEED original on ONE SHEET of VELLUM.

Barnard

Smith

Walpole

Royson

No Location

1632

Bloomsbury 20 Jun 2002

Charles I (King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1600-49) Grant to Elizabeth Pennyngton of "those lands and possessions of Henry Pennyngton his Ma[jesty]s ward and child and next heir of Anthony Pennyngton", D.s. "R. Naunton", manuscript on vellum, folds, remains of Privy Seal appended, 320 x 610mm., 5th March 1632. Robert Naunton (1563-1635), politician, Master of the Court of Wards; author of Fragmenta Regalia, a biographical work on the most prominent courtiers of Queen Elizabeth.

Pennyngton

Naunton

Barbados

1694

Bloomsbury 20 Jun 2002

Collection of deeds and documents, chiefly relating to Captain Thomas Gunstone and his plantation near St. Georges, Barbados, Ds.s., manuscripts, 10 on vellum, folds, dusty, seals, v.s., 7th October 1669 - 6th January 1694 (c. 17). The earliest deed concerns the sale of fifty six acres of land in St. Thomas, Barbados by Mary Browne, daughter of John Browne to Captain John Sutton. One document dated 13th May 1682 lists "Men Negroes, Women Negroes, Negro Boyes and Negro Girles" along with cattle, calves, horses etc. Other documents relate to property transactions between Sutton, Gunstone and his wife Ursula who later married William Walker.

Gunstone

Browne

Sutton

Walker

No Location

1629

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Great old Bible with original binding 1629, printers Bonham Norton and John Bill, London. Size 7 by 9 inches by 3 inches thick. The Bibkle has woodcuts, genealogies and an almanack. The binding is rubbed (so would I be if I was 380 years old!!) The book lacks possibly 8 pages at the front and also some pages at the rear. The actual Bible otherwise looks complete. Book of Psalmes 1628 bound in at the back. Has songs and notation therein. The book has many signatures applied in the 1600 and 1700s. Lost its clasps probably years ago. Upper portion of spine missing. The pages are in the main in good condition, not much damage at all. A very early Bible which we are sure will be loved and has some very interesting information other than the actual Bible. From images on ebay, names include Abraham Althahouse (1709) and Joseph Lubbock (not dated).

Althahouse

Lubbock

No Location

1771

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1771 ANTIQUE VELLUM KINGS COURT AGREEMENT. Document drawn up in THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE III ON THE FOURTH DAY OF THE HOLY TRINITY BEFORE THE KINGS JUSTICES. BETWEEN GEORGE MARRIOT AND CHARLES DIXON WITH REGARD TO LAND IN BERTLINGHAM IN THE PARISH OF BERTLINGHAM

Marriot

Dixon

No Location

1844, 1868

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DESCRIPTION Brown's Self-Interpreting Bible with numerous additional Notes. By the Reverend Henry Cooke. CONTENTS See extensive scans of this fine very heavy all leather bible. It belonged to a Jas Cassels and Christine Niven in 1868. The bible has no date but the Preface by Cooke is dated 1st March 1844.

Cooke

Cassels

Niven

Antigua, Mustique

1824

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THEFT OF NEGRO SLAVES ANTIGUA MUSTIQUE 1824. Antigua: An eight page manuscript statement, possibly a draft, folio paper sized, in good clean and legible condition, penned in dark havana ink. Written in support of the claim of John Vernon that between 1790 and 1814 his father`s tenant, Justin Casamajor, sold a total of 105 slaves belonging to the plantation and contrary to the terms of the lease. These slaves, whose names are listed along with maternal parent, were sold to Bryan Blake, Christopher Punnett and others; their issue are also being claimed for. Makes mention of Mustique and St Vincent as well Antigua. A detailed example of the commodification of the African and Caribbean born slave in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. No date but possibly circa 1824.

Vernon

Casamajor

Blake

Punnett

No Location

1500-1600

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This is a small Letter of Agreement which, while not dated, has been expertised as being between 1500-1600 (probably Elizabeth I). It seems to refer to a "fild with Barn" and what belongs to them. Also to "house, all the palls & railles,barpostes and bars, shelfe, lime and brikes. Mentions Henery Pelling. It is signed and witnessed. It measures about 8 x 6 inches.

Pelling

No Location

1770

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Hand Written Exercise and Note Book circa 1770. This is a leather bound book of about 120 pages containing mathmatical principles and exercises and poems etc in copperplate handwriting by Honour Anthony (nee Hooke) who according to the inscription was born May 4th 1754. Later in her life she obviously used the blank pages as a notebook and it includes notes on her children, how to concoct cures for various ills in sheep, cows, cattle and humans, rat poison (arsenic and ox vomit - should work a treat!!), recipes for milk punch and ginger wine, poems and prayers, together with some accounts of income. Leather binding is stiffened and a bowed; hinges are cracked in a number of places but binding is still sound and tight; corner missing on three pages. A fascinating insight to what must have been an unusually well educated young woman of her time

Anthony

Hooke

No Location

1774-1809

Dominic Winter 9 Apr 2003

318

Ainslie (George Robert & Sir Robert). Album of thirty original and printed items relating to the Ainslie family, c. 1774-1809, all pasted into album with ink captions, some items torn out and loosely inserted but complete as original MS. contents list, contemp. cloth with leather label to upper cover, lge. 4to. George Robert Ainslie (1776-1839, Lieutenant-General) and Sir Robert Ainslie (1730-1812, Amabassador to the the Ottoman Porte 1775-92) were both antiquartians and numismatists with books published on their collections. The collection includes accounts of Philip and George Ainslie, 1773-76; a lettere dated 8 September 1774 from Mrs Ainslie; George III signed official document appointing Sir Robert to the Embassy of Constantinople, 17 April 1776, also signed by Earl of Weymouth; two French Revolution bank assignat notes; an important letter on the destruction of Toulon Arsenal from Sir Sidney Smith to Sir Robert, 4 January 1793; an important letter (loose) concerning the Peninsular War from Major Charles Ainslie from Talavera, 30 July 1809; family correspondence between Sir Robert and John Anstruther; other genealogical correspondence.

Ainslie

Smith

Anstruther

Gibraltar

1720

Dominic Winter 9 Apr 2003

323

Colyear (David, c.1656-1730, first Earl of Portmore). Order by David Colyear, Earl of Portmore, as Governor of Gibraltar, to Francis Jeffarys, Ordnance storekeeper, dated 29 December 1720, concerning deliveries to Captain C. Brisco for the use of the garrison (fine powder for blowing rocks 8 barrels / cannon powder for the batteries 8 barrels /match 4 hundredweight), signed 'Portmore' and signed on back of sheet as received by Brisco, 1p., 4to

Colyear

Jeffarys

Brisco

No Location

1677

Dominic Winter 9 Apr 2003

324

Craven (William, Earl of, 1606-97). A letter to the Earl of Craven at Drury House, from his gardener George Bell, Sept. 7th 1677, requesting further money to undertake continued gardening work, single folded sheet written in a clear hand, signed & dated by George Bell, torn and frayed to horizontal fold affecting writing, with impressed wax seal to outer fold William, Earl of Craven (1606-97) was a royalist who distinguished himself in the Thirty Years War. He was a devotee to Elizabeth, the Winter Queen of Bohemia. On the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, amongst the honours given to him, he became High Steward of Cambridge University in 1667, Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, and a member of the King's Council. He features in both the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn and in 1661 he entertained Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia at his house menioned in the letter, Drury House in Drury Lane, until the queen's death on February 1662.

Craven

Bell

No Location

1919

Dominic Winter 9 Apr 2003

326

Dickens (Sir Henry, 1849-1937, son of Charles Dickens). A copy of Children's Stories from Dickens, pub. Raphael Tuck, c.1919, inscribed by Sir Henry Dickens to John Wooldridge 'To Master Wooldridge with every good wish for his success in life and in the hope that he will guide himself by the teaching of Charles Dickens, from Henry Dickens, K.C. and Common Serjeant of the City, Sept 20 1919', col. and b & illusts., orig. cloth backed pictorial boards, 4to, contained with a letter written by Sir Henry Dickens on headed notepaper to Arthur Wooldridge (John's father), also dated September 20th 1919, 4 pp., folded, 'It was kind and thoughtful of you to write to me and enclose a photograph of your bright looking little son. I gave him my bouquet on the steps of St. Pauls because I was attracted to his eager little face evidently full of interest in the scene and the bigwigs passing in front of him...Don't let him read Dickens too early. Children cannot well understand him; but as soon as he gets old enough press upon him the advisability of reading all his books. The perusal will not only give him infinite pleasure but will teach him humanity, true sympathy with poor, suffering or distressed people and will give him a wish to do some good in the world. I am sending him "Children's Stories from Dickens'" which he can well understand...', with the orig. postmarked envelope (in pieces), a photograph of John Wooldrige holding the posy (7cm x 4cm and laid down onto modern paper), and various related newspaper cuttings. Each year at St. Pauls Cathedral a service is held for the judges, Serjeants, Councels, etc. at which they traditionally carry a posy of herbs to ward off infections. It appears that on this occasion a boy, John Wooldridge, caught the eye of Sir Henry Dickens and was presented with his posy. His father then wrote to Sir Henry thanking him and father and son received the letter and inscribed book.

Dickens

Wooldridge

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1742-1945

Dominic Winter 9 Apr 2003

344

Medicine. Collection of 88 ALSs and clipped signatures of notable English physicians and surgeons, 1742-1945, most with typed cover sheet with biographical clipping from DNB, Who's Who, etc., contained with full list in recent A5 boxfile. Names included are Thomas Barlow, Mathew Baillie, John Bell, Robert Christison, Andrew Clark, Willia, Fergusson, William Hey, William Jenner, Robert Knox, James Paget, D'Arcy Power, John Joseph Pringle, James Cowles Pritchard, George Sava, Edward Sieveking, Samuel Solly, Henry Thompson, John A. Wright, Frederick Treves, Thomas Winkworth, Forbes B. Winslow and many others.

No Location

1674

Dominic Winter 9 Apr 2003

369

Sheffield (John, 1648-1721, Earl of Mulgrave). Receipt signed by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulqrave [later Duke of Buckingham and Normanby], for œ500 (half of an annuity of œ1000 payable to him according to Letters Patent of 27 Feb. 1673, this half due at Christmas preceding), dated 13 January 1674, The money was received from John Twisden, Doctor of Physic, and others who were farmers of the Kinq's Alum works, 1p., 8vo

Sheffield

Twisden

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19th century

Dominic Winter 9 Apr 2003

379

Watercolour album. A good-quality early 19th-century watercolour album belonging to Elizabeth Dudley, c. 1825-33, containing approx. thirty-two careful watercolour drawings of young women, flowers, birds, children and one or two landscapes, twenty-eight pencil landscapes, one mounted col. litho. illust. to 1st leaf, mostly by Elizabeth Dudley and other members of her family including Edward Dudley, Sophie Dudley, and Charles Dudley, some hand-written verse in ink, etc, a.e.g., contemp. half olive green morocco gilt, rubbed and minor wear to head and foot of spine, folio. See illustration inside front cover of this catalogue.

Dudley

No Location

1682

Bloomsbury 20 Jun 2002

118

Battell (Ralph, divine, Rector of All Saints' and St. John's, 1649-1713) Indenture between Ralph Battell the elder, Ralph Battell the younger, Elizabeth Battell, Nathaniel Dod & Elizabeth Dod, Annuity of twenty pounds per annum to Ralph Battell and Elizabeth Dodd on their marriage, D.s. "Ralph Battell" & others, manuscript on vellum, two holes affecting text, water-stained and creased, wax seals, 445 x 546mm., 9th June 1682; and another, v.s., v.d. (2).

Battell

Dod

No Location

1733-1760

Bloomsbury 20 Jun 2002

125

Recipe Book, manuscript in three hands, 96 recipes and a bill of fare on 47pp., excluding blanks, ink ownership inscriptions: "Eleanor Poole her Book 1733" & "Joh. Cobb 1735", original vellum, bowed, lightly soiled, small 4to, 1733-[c. 1760]. The majority of the recipes date from the 1730s and include: "To pickell oysters"; "To rost a pike"; "To make Scochs Collops"; "To Make Rasprey Cream"; "To make pease Soop"; A florenden of oranges and apples"; "To make chess cake"; "To Make Marmalet of Oranges"; "An Oxford Pudding"; "For the Scurvy"; "To make Elder Wine"; "Mahogany to Colour" etc. The bill of fare is titled: "An Anigmatical Bill of Fare" and includes: "Mellancholly Soop … The Divine part of a Man boiled … The first Temptation in a small Blast of Wind" etc.

Poole

India

1771

Bloomsbury 20 Jun 2002

129

Hastings (Warren, Governor-general of India, 1732-1818) A Cowle granted by the Honble Josias Du Pré Esqr President & Governor & Council of Fort S George … , D.s. "Warren Hastings", "Jos: du Pré" and others, manuscript, 1p., repaired along folds, slightly affecting text, a few tears, 4to, Fort St. George, 12th April 1771. An agreement to lease the town of Telicacherlah [Tellicherry?] for 450 Madras Pagodas per annum for three years. "Cowle. An engagement, lease or grant in writing." - OED.

Hastings

Du Pre

Cape of Good Hope

1807

Bloomsbury 20 Jun 2002

136

Caledon (Dupre Alexander, second Earl of, first Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, 1777-1839) Warrant. By His Excellency Du Pre Earl of Caledon, Governor … of His Majesty's Castle, Town, and Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, printed warrant with manuscript insertions, 3pp., folds, a few small tears, slightly soiled and browned, wax seal, folio, The Castle of Good Hope, 24th December 1807. "In pursuance of the Power and Authority in me vested, I do hereby order you John Falcon Esqr. Deputy Paymaster Gen., to the forces in this Colony, to issue … the amount of Staff pay … #1285."

Caledon

Falcon

No Location

19th century

Bloomsbury 20 Jun 2002

146

Genealogy.- Jennens & Guidot Pedigree, compiled for Anthony Guidot from deeds & evidences in the possession of the two families in 1654, with additions to 1704, numerous watercolour coats of arms, long manuscript roll on paper, linen-backed, slightly browned and creased in places, c. 8 metres 20cm. x 76cm., [nineteenth century]. A Huguenot pedigree.

Jennens

Guidot

No Location

1915

Bloomsbury 20 Jun 2002

155

Heraldry.- Athill (Charles Harold, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1853-1922) Pedigree of Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, manuscript, title and 17pp., some tissue guards, title, foreword and 8 coats of arms illuminated in gold and colours, pedigree in red and black, modern bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary morocco, gilt, modern morocco coat of arms laid on upper cover, g.e., folio, 1915.

Athill

Gloucester

No Location

1815

Bloomsbury 20 Jun 2002

188

Barfleur (William, soldier in the British Army?) A.L.s. to his wife, 1½pp. with conjugate blank and address panel, n.p. [France?], sm. 4to, 6th March 1815, enquiring after his family, "be so good as to inform me how my brother was wounded" and his future, "I cannot acquaint you whereabouts we are going I imagine it will be to America as there is no expectations of a peace which there has been a long talk of", folds, browned, address panel repaired.

Barfleur

No Location

1694

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Document drawn up in 1694 on PAPER. Handwritten it gives detail of AN OBLIGATION BETWEEN A JOHN TRENGROUSE AND A JAMES PELLOW. THE TOP PART IS WRITTEN IN LATIN AND THE DOCUMENT REQUIRES MORE RESEARCH. GUARANTEED original on TWO SHEET of shield WATERMARKED PAPER. THERE BOOK WORM DAMAGE TO CENTRE FOLD ON THE OUTER COVER, THREE WAX SEALS AND AN EMBOSSED REVENUE STAMP. Signed and sealed by Jno. Trengrouse, John Trengrouse Jur., James Pellow, witnessed by Joseph Trewinnard, Tho: Trengrouse and Tho: Pearce. From the IGI appears to relate to Cornwall.

Trengrouse

Pellow

Trewinnard

Pearce

No Location

1875

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This is a leather covered embosssed Bible with leather spine, which was added later. It is the Holy Bible, conating the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be read in churches. Oxofrd: Printed at the University Press, for the British and Foreign Bible Society, Instituted in London in the Year 1804; And sold at the Society's House, Queen Victoria Street, Blackfriars, London. Brevier 16mo. MDCCCLXXV (1875) Cum Privilegic. Family tree and details of Munnery. Bible belonged to W Munnery, Colwood Park, August 1875. Last entry Raymond Munnery Died 5th May 1923. Also contains Primitive Methodist Chapel receipts 1881, etc. The book is in good condition for it's age. It a very good feel to this book. Minor foxing and tear to endpaper at back, contents very good. Please see photos. 1536 pages, approximately, 7 inches high x 5 inches across. Depth, 2.5 inches. Possibly Sussex.

Munnery

No Location

1800s

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Large legal Document pages numbered from 1-44 with large pullout family tree of the Pretyman family.The case relates to George Lord Bishop of Winchester his surname was Pretyman, claiming title as nearest heir to Sir Thomas Pretyman of Greensfarme, Baronet of Nova Scotia.There are other family trees in this document used to prove the Bishops case.Very Interesting lot.Very early 1800's.

Pretyman

No Location

18th century

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Beluga Books is proud to offer an antique bible dating back to the end of the 18th century. It bears the original owner's inscription on the fep: 'Sushannah Hollier, Her book gave her by her grandfather in 1799'. On one of the centre pages I found a dried leaf, presumably placed there many eons ago. A poignant addition which remains with the volume. The tome is titled: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the Original Tongues. Published:Oxford. Printed at the Claredon Press by W. Jackson and W. Dawson. 1794/6? Overall condition is Good ++, internally some pages are stained to edges or wider. Original covers rubbed - especially at the edges. Folio, front and back boards all intact and original. A verse has been stapled onto an fep, presumably by the owner, but in our view this adds to the volume's interest. Original owner's name and address written in pen and ink on back of rear cover. Internally very good. 305mm x 245mm (12" x 9"). Binding is leather cover.

Hollier

No Location

17th century

Bloomsbury 13 Dec 2002

Dakins (William, ?Lancaster Herald of Arms) Bagshaw Pedigree, hand-coloured coats of arms, on vellum, some small holes and tears, some slight wear, bit creased, 825 x 480mm., n.p., n.d. [seventeenth century]; and another, v.s. (2). *** There is no trace of a William Dakins in Stanford London's The College of Arms.

Dakins

No Location

1676

Bloomsbury 13 Dec 2002

Heraldry.- Walker (Sir Edward, Garter King of Arms, 1612-77) Draft grant of supporters to Sir William Ducie, manuscript, completed in autograph and with corrections, 2pp. with conjugate blank and docket, slight tears along central fold, slightly browned, folio, Westminster, 21st September 1676; and a fragment of a pedigree signed by John Philpott (1588/9-1645), Somerset Herald and Thomas Thompson (d. 1641), Lancaster Herald, folio (2). Sir William Ducie (c. 1612-79), Baron of Cloney and Viscount Downe.

Walker

Ducie

Philpott

Thompson

No Location

1817

Bloomsbury 13 Dec 2002

Heraldry.- Heard (Sir Isaac, Garter King of Arms, 1732-1822) & George Harrison, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1740-1821. Grant of arms to James-Lewis West, manuscript on vellum, 5 hand-coloured illuminated coats of arms in blue ink compartments, docket on verso, some very light surface wear to 1 coat of arms, a little soiled, 2 wax seals only of 3, housed in hand-painted metal skippets with gilt floral decoration, housed in the original red morocco covered box with GR cypher's, catches, morocco worn, hinges broken, 450 x 505mm., 21st August 1817.

Heard

Harrison

West

No Location

1890

Bloomsbury 13 Dec 2002

. Genealogy.- Lake (Reginald, barrister) The Genealogies of the Families Lake, Greene and Raymond, manuscript, 60pp., printed title and 6pp. of printed genealogy, some browning, bookplate on front pastedown, original morocco, worn, lacks spine, sm. folio, [c. 1890]; and a quantity of ephemera loosely inserted, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).

Lake

Greene

Raymond

No Location

1860

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This is a memorandum of agreement dated 1860 between a Mr Samuel Beresford and A Mr Martin Hunnybun.There is a one penny lilac stamp [inland revenue]on the document to complete the sale.

Beresford

Hunnybun

No Location

1756

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A 1756 Hand written Lease This is a beautifully written document dated 25th March 1756. It is signed and sealed and witnessed. It is a bit grubby and has some wear but is completely readable and the terminology is most interesting. (From images – Caddell family?)

Caddell

No Location

1798

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Attested Copy lease for a year between M Fisher and Mr Bidwell 11th. Jan 1798 9appears to be watermarked 1810 though).It appears to be about' All that messuage or tenement of him the said Francis Fisher commonly called or known by the name or sign of the swan' etc.Comprises approx. 1 page

Fisher

Bidwell

Misc.

1798

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Insurance note to Sanderson Brothers & Co. dated 25th February 1817 for ship 'Hibernia' (master Joseph Gibson) sailing from Chepstow to Dublin and back. Insured for £350 at a cost of £4-19s-6d (25/- percent). Document also mentions John Hewitson of Maryport, Cumberland and James Thomas. Condition: printed sections are in black ink and very clear. Ink in handwritten sections has faded to brown and some parts are hard to decipher. There is some staining to the centre of the document and some other dark marks. The document (which has four pages in total) measures 16" x 10". The second page is blank, the third page has a hand written letter from Sanderson Brothers to John Hewitson and the fourth page (badly stained) is a summary of the document.

Gibson

Hewitson

Thomas

Misc.

1811

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11 November 1811 Appointment of new Trustees of Lord and Lady Cowley's marriage settlement. Between The Right Honourable Henry Richard Charles Earl Cowley & Olivia Cecilia Countess Cowley and Lord Eustace Cecil, Richard Mostyn Lewis Williams Bul….? & Edmund Hery Ellis Esquire.

Cowley

Cecil

Ellis

Wiltshire

1797

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Royal Household WARRANT requiring the Clerk of his Majesty's Household to 'swear and admit Timothy Spencer into the place of yougest Child of His Majesty's Kitchen in ordinary' and settle upon him the salary directed by his Majesty's Book of Establishment, etc. 7 lines on vellum, 12" x 12", slight yellowing along one fold. Signed Dorset, blue paper tax stamp. 1797. £18.00

Spencer

Wiltshire

1813

Lesley Aitchison Website

Royal Household WARRANT requiring the Clerk of His Majesty's Household to 'swear and admit the Bearer Francis Hammond into the Place of Serjeant Porter of His Majesty's Household'having received a warrant from the Prince Regent on behalf of His Majesty. Signed by Earl Cholmondeley, Lord Steward of His Majesty's Household. 17 lines on vellum, 10" x 14". 1813. £16.00

Hammond

No Location

1898

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A Victorian single page paper passport issued on 2nd November 1898 and bearing serial number 32952. At the top of the passport is the royal coat of arms. The passport was issued and signed by Robert Cecil and details his honoors including being Her Majesty,s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. At the bottom left is the stamp duty mark to the value of sixpence. The passport was issued to Mr. Albert Edward Schofield a British subject travelling on the Continent.The document has creases but is otherwise very good.

Schofield

New Zealand

1859

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INDENTURE 1859 SETTLEMENT £800CONSOLS BRASSEY. THIS WAVYLINE VELLUM INDENTURE MEASURES 28INCHES BY 21 INCHES, AND IS A SETTLEMENT OF £800 OF CONSOLIDATED STOCK BY GEORGE A BRASSEY OF ST. GEORGES BAY, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND ONTO HIS WIFE AND THEN TO HIS CHILDREN WHO SURVIVE THEIR 21ST YEAR. IT HAS 3 BLANK WAX SEALS AND A £2 BLUE & SILVER TAX STAMP. ATTACHED TO THE INDENTURE IS THESIGNED TRANSFER FORM FOR THE £800 CONSOLS TO HIS TRUSTEES. WHILE THE FRONT OF THIS INDENTURE IS IN QUITE GOOD CONDITION, THE FOLDED DOWN FRONT IS RATHER DARKENED WITH AGE.

Brassey

No Location

1791

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FINAL AGREEMENT FOR SALE OF 60 ACRES MEADOW AND PASTURE - 1791. FINAL AGREEMENT MADE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, WESTMINSTER, 1791, BETWEEN JEREMIAH CURTIS, QUERENT (THE PURCHASER), AND GEORGE PALIN, JOHN LARBY AND BRIDGET HIS WIFE, DEFORCIANTS (SELLERS), FOR SIXTY ACRES OF PASTURE, MEADOW AND MARSH. This document records the final judgement of the court in respect of the sale of the land to Jeremiah Curtis. Unfortunately, no location is mentioned although the handwriting is in typical court script and difficult to read (so there may be a place mentioned that I have missed!). This would appear to be the "left-hand" indenture of fine which would have been retained by the purchaser. The document has been folded vertically 4-5 times but is still in relatively good condition. 50 by 22 cm.

Curtis

Palin

Larby

No Location

1881

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1881 ANTIQUE VELLUM ADMINISTRATION LARGE SEAL. PROBATE ADMINISTRATION OF ABRAHAM ASHWORTH 1881 A document drawn up in 1881 ON VELLUM. ADMINISTRATION DOCUMENT Handwritten AND PRINTED on VELLUM - AN ADMINISTRATION DOCUMENT FROM THE PRINCIPLE REGISTER OF PROBATE - THIS ITEM CARRIES THE PRINCIPLE PROBATE COURT SEAL OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE.

Ashworth

No Location

1833

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1833 ANTIQUE VELLUM ACCOUNTS DOCUMENT FOR THE ESTATE OF ANN NEALE. A GENERAL STATEMENT BY EXECUTORS OF THE ESTATE OF DECEASED AND ACCOUNT WITH THE FAMILY AS SIGNED BY THEM IN 1833. THIS A FINE DOCUMENT FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE NEALE FAMILY OR ACCOUNTING IN THE EARLY 19th CENTURY. A WELL LAID OUT DOCUMENT IN SECRETARY HAND IT ITEMISES THE PAYMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL SUMS OF MONEY TO MR STEPHEN NEAL - MR JOHN NEAL - MR ROBERT NEALE - ELIZABETH ANN MILLS SIDFORD - MARY ANN BEAVEN AND MISS LOUISA NEAL. THIS FAMILY HAD CONNECTIONS WITH FARMING - THE LATE FATHER WAS A STEPHEN NEALE - THERE IS NO RECORD PLACE OR PARISH ON THIS DOCUMENT - THE ONLY CLUE IS THAT IS WAS AMONG OTHER ITEMS FROM THE HEREFORD AREA. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION - SIZE 20 INCHES BY 16 INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED VELLUM.

Neale

Sidford

Beaven

No Location

1884

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ANTIQUE PAPER DOCUMENT HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE. BETWEEN THOMAS BENJAMIN MUGGERIDGE, PLAINTIFF AND JAMES BARNARD NATHAN NOYES DUNN, EDITH ELEANOR LUMSDEN AND JOHN THOMAS BEDFORD DEFENDANTS. CONCERNING THE SUM OF £1,006. WITH AN 1875 JUDICATURE FEES ROYAL COURT OF JUSTICE FIVE SHILLINGS GUMMED STAMP. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION - SIZE 16 INCHES BY 13 INCHES ON TWO SHEETS OF FOLDED GROSVENOR HAND MADE WATERMARKED PAPER.

Muggeridge

Dunn

Lumsden

Bedford

Jamaica

1853

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1853 ANTIQUE PAPER WRIT WITH VICTORIAN EMBOSSED REVENUE STAMP AND RECORD AND WRIT OFFICE AFFIDAVIT CACHE. IN THE MATTER OF A LEGACY OF £5,000 BEQUEATHED BY THE WILL OF DANIEL VIRTUE LATE OF JAMAICA PLANTER DECEASED TO BETHIA VIRTUE, NOW BETHIA WYMEN AND OF THE TRUSTS DECLARED AS TO THE SAID LEGACY BY AN INDENTURE MADE PREVIOUSLY TO AND IN CONTEMPLATION OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE SAID BETHIA VIRTUE AND JAMES WYMEN. REFERENCE TO SLAVE OWNERSHIP ON THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA AT AN ESTATE CALLED ROXBUGH CASTLE WHICH WAS BEQUEATHED TO A NEPHEW ADAM HOGG. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL - IN GOOD CONDITION - ON SIX FOLDED SHEETS OF BOND PAPER

Virtue

Wymen

Hogg

Jamaica

1854

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1854 ANTIQUE PAPER CHANCERY COURT DOCUMENT WITH VICTORIAN REVENUE STAMPS. IN THE MATTER OF THE ACT OF PARLIAMENT MANE AND PASSED IN THE TENTH AND ELEVENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA - FOR THE BETTER SECURING TRUST FUNDS AND FOR RELIEF OF TRUSTEES AND IN THE MATTER OF A LEGACY OF £5000 BEQUEATHED BY THE WILL OF DANIEL VIRTUE LATE OF JAMAICA, PLANTER. WITH 1853 DE LA RUE 1d RECEIPT STAMP. LILAC ON WHITE SURFACE PRINTED LIGHT BLUE -PERFS 15.5 X 15 RECTANGULAR BUCKLE; SMALL LETTERS OF INSCRIPTION ON BLUED PAPER - WITH OFF CENTRE PERFORATION- GUARANTEED ORIGINAL - IN GOOD CONDITION - ON ONE SHEET OF J.COLES WATERMARKED PAPER FOR 1853 - SIZE 13 X 16 FOLDED.

Virtue

Malta

1843

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CERTIFICATE OF BAPTISM – ADMINISTERED AT MALTA - 1843. Baptism certificate of Emily Margaret Elizabeth of E. Phillipidi. Blind stamped (sigilum insulae Melitae) Small tear on blank page.

Phillipidi

Malta

1843

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Manuscript letter on three pages regarding the appointment of Mr Phillipides to the school of Corfu as suggested by the commissioning committee in Malta etc. Signed by the committee members, dated 1843

Phillipides

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1878

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1878 ANTIQUE PAPER CHANCERY COURT DOCUMENTS WITH VICTORIAN REVENUE STAMPS. IN THE MATTER OF FRANCES GERTRUDE JAMES ON BEHALF OF HERSELF AND THE OTHER CREDITORS OF ISAAC JAMES DECEASED PLAINTIFF AND ELIZABETH JAMES (NOW DECEASED) ELIZABETH JAMES THE YOUNGER, EMILY JAMES, ISAAC WILLIAM JAMES, JOHN HAWKINS AND SARA HIS WIFE AND JOHN CHARLES JAMES. DETAIL ON PAYMENTS ETC, WITH HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENT OF WRIT. WITH THREE DE LA RUE JUDICATURE FEES STAMPS FOR ONE SHILLING, GREEN ON WHITE; TWO PENCE (2d) AND ONE PENNY, LILAC ON BLUE SURFACED PAPER - GUARANTEED ORIGINAL - IN GOOD CONDITION - ON TWO SHEETS OF WATERMARKED PAPER - SIZE 13 X 16 FOLDED.

James

Hawkins

Mauritius

1832

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1832 ANTIQUE PAPER RELEASE INDENTURE. DOCUMENT DRAWN UP IN IN 1832 ON PAPER IT GIVES DETAIL OF RELEASE BETWEEN SAMUEL BATES FERRIS, TREASURE AND PAY MASTER OF THE ISLE OF FRANCE AND A LIEUTENANT COLONEL IN THE HANOVERIAN SERVICE AND ONLY SON OF SAMUEL FERRIS FORMERLY OF LITTLE MISSENDEN IN THE COUNTY OF BUCKINGHAM AND LATE OF EXMOUTH IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON, B....? OF MEDICINE DECEASED AND PHILIP COMBAULD LATE OF THE OLD CITY CHAMBERS IN THE CITY OF LONDON BUT NOW OF WESTBURY NEAR BRISTOL IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET, GENTLEMAN. Isle of France refers to Mauritius. THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS DETAILS OF SUMS OF MONEY TOTALING £10,500 AND INVESTMENTS IN BANK OF ENGLAND STOCK. WITH A ONE POUND FIFTEEN SHILLING EMBOSSED REVENUE STAMP. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION - SIZE 20 INCHES BY 16 INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED HAND MADE PAPER WITH J. MOREBY WATERMARK FOR 1832. REFERS TO AN EARLIER LEASE AND RELEASE DATED 30 AND 31 JULY 1787 BETWEEN SAMUEL FERRIS ON ONE PART, ANN REDDALL ON SECOND PART, THE REVEREND JOHN DRAKE, JOHN WANSEY, HONOURIUS COMBAULD .....?

Ferris

Combauld

Reddall

Wansey

No Location

1888

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1888 ANTIQUE VELLUM LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT PLUS letters of administration. LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF GEORGE WARREN - BARON DE TABLEY. RARE AND INTERESTING DOCUMENT GIVING DETAILS OF LARGE SUMS OF MONEY AND ITEMS WITHIN TABLEY HOUSE. Tabley House was designed by John Carr of York for Sir Peter Byrne Leicester, Bt., and completed in 1769. His son, Sir John Fleming Leicester, Bt., later 1st Lord de Tabley, was the first great patron and collector of British paintings. He assembled a splendid collection at Tabley and in his London house during the first decade of the 19th Century, ultimately with the intention of establishing a National Gallery of British Art. JMW Turner, Henry Thompson and James Ward were among the many painters who stayed at Tabley. Today, important works by them can be seen in the rooms for which they were created, together with fine paintings by Dobson, Lely, Reynolds, Cotes, Northcote, Callcott, Fuseli, Lawrence and Martin. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION SOME CREASES - SIZE 26 INCHES BY 19 INCHES ON TWO SHEETS OF FOLDED VELLUM WITH A LARGE WAFER SEAL.

Warren

West Indies

1803

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West Indies - Antigua. Accounts inventory dated 1803, from Daniel Hill Jnr and Co of Antiqua to Lavington, Governor of Antigua for the period March - December of that year, listing goods supplied and services performed on behalf of the Governor, written in a fine legible hand, with endorsement, a few minor tears, affecting a few words, 4pp, large folio. An historically interesting document providing a picture of the life of a Governor of one of the more important islands in the West Indies. Lavington, born Ralph Payne, was most unusual as a West Indies Governor as he was native to the territory, having been born in in St. Christopher, in 1739. He was commissioned Governor May 10, 1771, resigned February 17, 1775, and returned soon after to England where he had a parallel career. He was an M.P. for Plymouth in 1762, Shaftesbury in 1769 and Camelford in 1774. He was reappointed Governor of Antigua, January 20, 1799, and died on the island, August 3, 1807, aged 68.

Hill

Lavington

Payne

No Location

1788

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A 1788 Lease. This is a 2 page beautifully written 1795 copy of a 1788 land lease. The indenture was made on 1st September 1788 and is written on watermaked lined document paper. It measures 16 x 13 inches and is properly witnessed. The parties were Thomas Maynard Esq and Mr James Press Esq.

Maynard

Press

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1867

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LAST WILL AND PROBATE OF JAMES BEWLEY 1867. ORIGINAL WILL DATED 15 TH JUNE 1867 WRITTENON PARCHMENT / VELUM COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL SEAL ATTACHED AND PROBATE LETTER. WONDERFUL CONDITION. JAMES BANKS PITTMAN SOLICITORS

Bewley

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1857

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1857 ANTIQUE PAPER INLAND REVENUE RESIDUARY ACCOUNT WITH VICTORIAN REVENUE STAMP. ACCOUNT OF PERSONAL ESTATE AND OF MONIES ARISING OUT OF REAL ESTATE OF JOHANNA WYNEN WHO DIED IN 1855. WITH 1856 DE LA RUE 1d PAYABLE ON DEMAND OR RECEIPT STAMP. LILAC ON BLUE UNSURFACED PAPER - GUARANTEED ORIGINAL - IN GOOD CONDITION - ON BRITANIA WATERMARKED PAPER.

Wynen

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1619-1636

Bloomsbury 12-13 Jun 2003

589

Seventeenth Century Poetry.- Charles I (King of England, 1600-49) Stuart Papers, comprising manuscript poetry, royal household documents and engraved portraits of Charles I and others, mounted or tipped-in, some foxing, manuscripts soiled, folds, bookplates of H. Rushton Barnes and Captain Arthur C. Crawford of Cartsburn on pastedowns, 19th century half morocco, slightly rubbed, g.e., 4to, v.s., v.d. [1619-36]. The collection includes:- 1. [Wright (Abraham, divine and author, 1611-90)] Were they not angels sung? did not mine ears; Which hath its pomp and glory from its guest [first and last lines], welcoming Charles I to the new library at St. John's College, Oxford, manuscript poem, bifolium, docket title and contemporary docket: "A copy of ye speech … ", [Crum 330], folio, n.d. [c. 1636]. 2. [?Drummond (William, of Hawthornden, poet, 1585-1649)] Quinque Sensus, manuscript poem, 2pp., bifolium, edges extensively frayed not affecting text, [Crum 751], folio, n.d. [c. 1640]. 3. Weston (Richard, later first Earl of Portland, statesman, 1577-1635) L.s. to Sir Robert Pye, 1p., folio, n.p., 8th October 1624, requesting him "to send mee a certificate of all such moneys, as you shall find to be done to Sr Jhon Brooke". 4. Newton (Sir Adam, Dean of Durham, Treasurer in the household of Prince Charles, d. 1630) 11 documents signed by Sir Robert Carey and others, relating to Sir Adam Newton and his family and orders within the prince's household, manuscripts, 11pp., dockets, 4 with signatures torn away, folio, 5th September 1619 - 26th November 1622.

Barnes

Crawford

Wright

Drummond

Weston

Pye

Brooke

Newton

Carey

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1628, 1629

Bloomsbury 12-13 Jun 2003

590

Hillary quatro … regis, D.s. "William Stoughton" & "Richard Johnson", manuscript, 2pp., superscriptions at end signed, folds, slightly browned, folio, February 1628 & 19th August 1629. Payments for engrossing and fines paid to the King's sergeant.

Stoughton

Johnson

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1630

Bloomsbury 12-13 Jun 2003

592

Religious commonplace book, comprising notes of sermons on Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, sermons on Psalm 91.v.2. and Matthew 6.24, an analysis of Fox's Book of Martyrs and a list of theological terms, manuscript in Latin and English, in two hands, 119pp. excluding blanks, ink notes and signature "John Coke" on endpapers, slightly damp-stained and browned, later front endpapers with ink notes, original calf, slightly rubbed, upper cover detached, 8vo, 15th July 1630. The author records that he was twenty years old when he commenced the work on the prophet Jeremiah. The sermon on Matthew 6. 24. is titled Noe man can serve two masters. A reference to the political controversy of the day, can man serve God and the king.

Coke

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1651-1657

Bloomsbury 12-13 Jun 2003

593

Rushton (Thomas) Codex … . Sermons or religious notes for sermons, manuscript, c. 300pp., numerous ff. extensively browned and friable, many ff. rendered illegible, loose or working loose, bound with The Whole Booke of Psalmes, 1640, at end, original calf, rubbed, remains of catches, 8vo, 27th January 1651- 16th January 1657. Quotes from Isiah, Thomas Fuller, Bishop Bancroft and a recipe: "A remedie for ye Stone".

Rushton

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1680-1708

Bloomsbury 12-13 Jun 2003

602

Newport (John, merchant) [Account book], manuscript, title and 53pp., ruled throughout, slightly browned, disbound, 12mo, 1680 - 10th November 1708.

Newport

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17th century

Bloomsbury 12-13 Jun 2003

603

Beaumont family. [Fragment of a family genealogy], manuscript, 44pp. excluding blanks, pp. 75-166 only, 3 folding pedigrees from another, earlier work, 1 pedigree loose, ruled throughout, some worm in lower margins, browned, slightly water-stained, new endpapers, modern cloth, sm. folio, [late seventeenth century].

Beaumont

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1691-2

Bloomsbury 12-13 Jun 2003

606

Nottingham (Daniel Finch, second Earl of, statesman, 1647-1730) Certificate acknowledging that John Methven, Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Portugal had departed to take up his position, D.s. "Nottingham", manuscript, ½p. with conjugate blank, blind-stamped seal, folio, Whitehall, 12th February 1691/2

Nottingham

Methven

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1709-1711, 1814

Bloomsbury 12-13 Jun 2003

612

Apothecary's Bill. For ye Honoble James Thynne Esq:, manuscript, 2 small holes, folds, browned, edges frayed, 164 x 191mm., 2nd January 1707/8 - 8th June 1711; and a small quantity of others including a list of medical recipes, an order to the Howard firm of chemists, Woodbridge, 1814 and a detailed list of goods available from a druggist wholesaler, Philadelphia, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty). James Thynne (d. 1709), Joint keeper of the King's Library 1677-88; MP for Cirencester 1701.

Thynne

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1800-1830

Bloomsbury 12-13 Jun 2003

641

Page family.- Commonplace book, compiled by various members of the Page family, manuscript, 345pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, bookplate on front pastedown, original half calf, worn, folio, [c. 1800-30]. Subjects include: astrology, brewing of beer, colour - negroes, drunkenness, Europe - Theory of its Population, Freemasonry etc.

Page

Tobago

1802

Bloomsbury 12-13 Jun 2003

642

George III (King of Great Britain, 1738-1820) Kings warrant granting an annual pension of £200 to Isabella Frances Master, widow of Richard Master, late Governor of Tobago, D.s. "George R, Henry Addington", manuscript, 3pp., docket on verso, tears along folds, folio, 30th April 1802.

Master

Addington

100

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1832

Bloomsbury 12-13 Jun 2003

648

Brownrigg (Sophia) Journal, manuscript, 151pp., some ff. excised, slightly browned, original half vellum, upper cover worn, 3rd January - 31st December 1832; and 2 others comprising a 19th century commonplace book and an unfinished novel, [c. 1870s], sm. 4to & folio (3). Journal incudes a voyage from India [?Calcutta] to England, landing at the Isle of Wight, travelling to London and the Home Counties.

Brownrigg