Manuscripts
Extensive collection of manuscripts and printed documents on paper and vellum, 16th-19th century
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Including: [Horace Walpole interest], draft document concerning a debt owned by Horace Walpole to a Mary Williams, 1776, on paper, 2 pp.; John Wauchope, Lord Edmonstone (1633-1709), 5 documents, including 2 signed by Sir Archibald Primrose (1616-1679) as lord clerk register, 1664, one of which possibly the marriage settlement of John Wauchope and Anna Rait/Raith (this document with loss to head), all on several conjoined sheets of paper, rolled into scrolls, approx. max. length 200cm; [East India Company], last will and testament of William Nisbett, first mate of East Indiaman Earl Howe, 1803; deed in German, 1584, on vellum, concerning Jacob Zipper Angenstein; Charles Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, document signed, 1843, on vellum, appointing Thomas Lascelles vicar of Wherwell, Hampshire; [Buckinghamshire], indenture concerning Thomas Gardiner of Potter Row, Great Missenden, 1639, on vellum, with red wax seal; [Middlesbrough interest], Memorandum of agreement concerning Henry William Ferdinand Bolckow and representatives of John Vaughan deceased, 1870, on vellum, 10 pp.; Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne (1745-1828), printed receipt signed ‘Melbourne’, 1790; and approx. 100 others similar, 17th-19th century, including property transactions, letters of attorney, wills, apprenticeship indentures, death notices, etc., in Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Essex, etc., and various ephemera including printed particulars for sale by auction of the manor of Bagber, Dorset, etc. (1 box)