Manuscripts
Collection of manuscripts and documents, 17th century and later
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Including: [Highwaymen], document ordering the payment of bounty for the capture of James Mooney ‘for feloniously assaulting on the king's highway at Portsmouth and robbing Elizabeth Cartwright widow of seven shillings and six pence', 1764, on vellum, signed by Joseph Yates (1722-1770), judge, and others, window-mounted; Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat (c.1667-1747), leader of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, warrant for payment ‘of such His Majesties Treasure as remains in your charge unto Simon Lovat or his assigns the sum of one hundred pounds without account for one quarter of a year …', 1738, subscribed ‘My Ld Macclesfield I pray pay this order out of duty on houses’, signed at foot ‘Winnington’, 'G Earle' etc.; John Potter (1674-1747), archbishop of Canterbury, letter signed as bishop of Oxford, 1718, probably autograph, on complaints of neglect from the parishioners of Stanton Harcourt; Thomas Secker (1693-1768), archbishop of Canterbury, autograph letter signed as bishop of Oxford, 1749, on vicarages in the parish of Churchill (tape-repairs at foot); [Glorious Revolution], ‘The preparation of the Happy Coronation of King William and Queen Mary, 5 November 1724, an early manuscript copy of the celebratory anthem published in broadside form as The Court of England [etc.], with added introduction to head and another song on conjugate leaf; [East India Company], indenture dated 1797 mentioning ‘Charles Stokes of Calcutta in the province of Bengal in the East Indies’, possibly lacking conjugate leaf; Charles II, chancery document on vellum with large engraved portrait and headpiece, rubbed and stained; attributed to Peter Canisius (1521-1578), Dutch Jesuit priest and saint, clipped inscription ‘Approbat a R. P. Canisio 1578’, possibly autograph, affixed to album leaf via red wax seal; Joseph, bishop of Soissons, document signed, 1726; and approx. 40 others, mainly deeds and indentures on vellum (a few on paper), 17th-18th century, some 19th century, most relating to Norfolk (all for parishes starting with the letter B, e.g. Brumstead, Broome, Blickling, Bressingham, Brancaster, Brandon, etc.), other items including an indenture signed by Lord Ossulston, 1714, receipt signed by Lord Masham, 1712, etc. (approx. 50)