Sales catalogue 522: Maggs Bros

Date:
1929
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/78
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 522: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1234 TAYLOR FAMILY (ISAAC, ANN AND JANE). Writers of Books for the Young. A COLLECTION OF SEVEN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS FROM ISAAC, ANN AND JANE TAYLOR TO THEIR PUBLISHERS, TAYLOR & HESSEY, ON LITERARY MATTERS. Contained on 7 pp., 4to and 8vo, and dated between 1814 and Lo l7e £3 3s 1235 TAYLOR (JEREMY, 1613-1667). Bishop of Down and Connor. Author of ‘‘ Holy Living ” and ‘‘ Holy Dying.” AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH. 1 full page, folio. Portmore, 31st December, 1622. With wax £12 10s A very fine letter on Ecclesiastical matters; as to the Countess of Clanbrasil detaining some Church property and keeping an independent Chaplain; also denying reports as to his lessening the rents of Dromore. seal. ‘“¢ . «In the meantime all that I shall trouble your Grace with at this time is that the Countess of Clanbrasil still persists in detaining the Grange—she hath in her hoyse an independent Chaplaine which give great offence to many, and confirms the schismatical part of the neighbourhood in their pertinacy. I sent to, her Ladyp. to send him to me; which yesterday she did; I found the fellow apt to take jndifferent good words, but would doe nothing, & refused to subscribe to the articles of the Church. ... . ‘‘T find by Col. Hill that my Lord Arch Bp. of Dublin hath taken up ye report of my lessening the rents of Dromore; and therefore I have sent my servant who is register of the Chapter to demonstrate to him that I have not onely not lessen’d but I have increas’d it; & that those title fines I have taken are by me & more are to be expended upon my building the Cathedral of Dromore, which I doe from the ground.”’ Etc. 1236 TAYLOR (JEREMY). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO THE BISHOP OF ARMAGH. 1 page, folio. Dublin, 6th May, 1662. £11 10s As to putting the laws of Conformity into execution, and the obstacles put in the way. ‘‘ The petition on behalf of ye Clergy for putting ye lawes of Conformity into execution hath beene read, & a declaration, with much contrast at last consented to; but when brought in, it was wholly laid aside & a new one framed; & after that many convulsions was voted; but the next meeting it was greatly debated