Sales catalogue 568: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/113
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 568: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Artington (Henry Bennet, Earl of)—continued. y* bottome of y® matter and taken greate comfort from it in all circumstances but ye delay y® battering of our ships have occasioned us. . ‘“ In ye Hollande ye consternation is altogether as hee. tells it, weh hath made them send deputyes to oT Master and y® same number to ye M. Xn King I dare say by what I can guesse wth different errandes and to make y* matter compleate wthout any participation of ye Count de Monterey, of which hee complaines in his leter to y® Spanish Ambassador, the king hath answered them hee cannot treate without acquainting ye M. X® King accordingly hee hath sent my L¢ Hallifax to congratulate ye birth of ye young Monsieur, y® progres of his armes and tell him of these deputyes coming and to say in secret to him he shall be unwilling to treate till hee sees himselfe in possession of those things for which hee made ye warre. With all this oT last newes from Hollande affirmes they are putting their fleet to sea again stronger than ever in ships, though weaker in men, which can have noe other bottome than ye conveying home their EX. Indy fleete. I am sorry ours is not yet abroade wee are promised greate dispatch but it is not performed. ‘*T cannot ende this wthout letting your Exee know of ye honor ye king hath done mee today in giving mee y® order.”’ 884 AUMALE (FRANCOISE, MADEMOISELLE D’). Companion to Madame de Maintenon. THREE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED 10 SAbawt DU PERON, SUPERIEORE DE LA ROYALE MAISON DE ST2IEOUIS Sl aCYR, 10 pp., 4to.. Fontaineblau, 30th June, 1705, st january.) 1732. 2Ath June. £5 5s Personal letters, containing references to the Maréchal de Villeroy and Madame de Maintenon. (Trans.) :—‘‘ Madame wrote to you this morning. I find her better this after- noon, or rather this evening. . . She said this morning: ‘‘ St. Cyr must take the place of many things to me, for the days here seem centuries to me, and if I had not St. Cyr, I should die.”’ 885 AVAUX (CLAUDE DE MESMES, COMTE D’, 1595-1650). Celebrated diplomatist who conducted for France the negotiations at Munster which closed the Thirty Years’ War. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO CARDINAL MAZARIN. 3 pp:, folio. .Hambure, 3th March, 1047. £5 5s Very fine letter in which the writer acknowledges favours he and his family have received from the Cardinal.