INITIAL LETTER PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM III
[WILLIAM III
(of Orange, 1650-1702, King of Great Britain)]
Fine Exemplification of the Common Recovery with Double Voucher,
in Latin with transcription and translation, by Robert Snell, (Demandant), from Nathaniel Athill & Richard Warner, (Tenants to the Praecipe or Writ), of “4 dwellings 4 gardens 60 acres of land 10 acres of meadow and 60 acres of pasture”, in North Tuddenham, Elsinge, Lyng, Swanton Morley, Bylaugh and Hockering, villages E or NE of Dereham in Norfolk, heard before Sir George TREBY, (circa 1644-1700, from 1692 Chief Justice of the Common Pleas) or his brethren, and implemented by Richard Mason, Esq., Sheriff of Norfolk, involving William Browne (the original Tenant i.e. Owner in Tail), and John Craike (Common Vouchee), headed by a fine engraved initial letter portrait of William III, surrounded by elaborate penmanship, 8½” x 8”, and continuing with a magnificent engraved border embodying the Lion & Unicorn defying Neptune and Jupiter, 6¾” x 20¾”, vellum, ruled in red, 19¾” x 29¼” in frame 21½” x 30¾”, Westminster, [12th February] 1698, postscript added in Easter fortnight
lacking seal, line 19 folded over in order to insert original postscript, obscuring text (easily supplied) and clerk’s name
Item Date:
1698
Stock No:
53840
£475
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WOLSELEY
(Garnet, Viscount, 1833-1913, Field Marshal, C-in-C of the Army)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Mitchell
telling her that he has “a horrid committee at the War Office tomorrow which I must attend; we meet at 11 a.m so I may be late for luncheon but I shall certainly be with you sometime of other before 3 pm, and if I possibly can I shall be with you at two o’clock. It is so very kind of you to ask me...”, 2 sides 8vo., 23 Portman Square, Tuesday, no date
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0
Stock No:
43515
£75
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WOLSELEY
(Garnet, Viscount, 1833-1913, Field Marshal, C-in-C of the Army)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Mitchell
telling her that he is going “out of town on Sunday morning early, so I cannot have the pleasure of calling upon you in the middle of the day, as you so kindly said I might do, but as I return in the afternoon I shall do myself the honour of paying you a visit about 5 pm on the chance of seeing you then...”, 2 sides 8vo., War Office, Friday, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43520
£55
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