A catalogue of a valuable collection of autograph letters of distinguished persons from the reign of Elizabeth to that of James II ... which will be sold by auction by Mr Sotheby ... on Thursday, December the 16th at twelve o'clock.

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Date:
1824
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Credit: A catalogue of a valuable collection of autograph letters of distinguished persons from the reign of Elizabeth to that of James II ... which will be sold by auction by Mr Sotheby ... on Thursday, December the 16th at twelve o'clock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    CATALOGUE OF A. VALUABLE COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONS, FROM THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH TO THAT OF JAMES 11. AMONG WHICH WILL BE FOUND, Those of Queen Elizabeth; Mary Queen of Scots, and her Mother Mary of Guise; Cardinal Beaton; the Regents of Scotland, Arran, Mar, and Murray; the Earls of Sussex and Bedford; Lord Hunsdon; James VIth of Scotland ; Anne of Denmark ; Charles I. and II.; the Queen of Bohemia; the Duke of Monmouth and Lord Chancellor Bacon; Lord Rochester, &c. &c. See. A considerable number relate to that period of Scottish History to which the public attention has been awakened by the powerful pen of the Author of Waverley, particularly to ‘‘ the crafty Lauderdale, the dissolute Rothes; DumbartonDouglas, ‘‘ the twice-turned Traitor, baith to Country and Kingand above all, one of Claverhouse, describing the Fight of Drum- clog ;—with many illustrative of Burnet’s History of his Own Times, and other Passages of English and Scottish History. Wiilich iutll he jSolh hg fluctton, BY MR. SPTHEBY, AT HIS HOUSE, NO. 3, WELLINGTON-STREET, STRAND, On Thursday, December the 16^A, AT TWELVE o’CLOCK. To be viewed, and Catalogues had at the Place of Sale, 1824.