DURHAM
(John George Lambton, 1855-1928, K.G., from 1879 3rd Earl)
Signature and Subscription from the end of a letter,
no date, circa
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
55825
£15
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CHOOSING A SCHOOL
DURY
(Revd. Theodore, 1788-1850, Rector of Keighley, W. Yorkshire, 1825-1840, and of Westmill, Hertfordshire from 1840)
Engaging Autograph Letter Signed to "My dear Fred[eri]c",
saying that "Barnard is a man of experience in training applemunching urchins, and his testimony in favour of Mr Trimmer's establishment, to use the fashionable term by which schools are advertised in and about London, is very strong ... young Barnard ... seems the very mirror of schoolboyhood for he can read Hebrew & construe Hecuba & yet has not reached his twelfth year", but asks if that "will teach him todiscern between the wool of a Ewe, a Lamb or a Hog ?", the name "reminds one of well trained schools & good little books ... Anne [Dury's wife] says I must write a stiff business like letter, which all the ... Sugdens from Walker up to William, including Martha in bed, may read", he talks amusingly of the recent change of Government, of the cold, "the thermometer nearly paid the debt of nature for it fell to 1½ above zero -- at Hoddesdon to zero according to Caro[line], who returned today from a visit to the Barnards", and of the plans "prepared by Mr Gill" for a new church at Keighley, for which he may have to borrow money, he gives detailed instructions for Frederic and Edwin [the writer's son] to unlock Anne's cabinet where they are stored, "Man wants but little here below", as Wellesley Pole said when courting Miss Long with 50000 a year, "upon which someone added, but wants that little Long", in a P.S. he asks "about your flittings ? Have you agreed with the Lord of Cliffe ? or the Lady of St Ives", 4 sides 4to, Westmill, 8th January
Item Date:
1841
Stock No:
52687
£275
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DUTY PAYABLE
Memorandum of references to a 'Book of Cases',
saying that in 1824 duty was "not liable being p[ai]d on Commission", but that in 1828 "where an annual stipend was allowed (even as an auditor) - tho' the person had sev[era]l d[ifferen]t Masters the duty was chargeable", 1 side 4½" x 7½", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1828
Stock No:
54171
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PETITION ON FEUDAL RENTS AND POLL TAX
DUVAL
(Paul, tenant farmer of La Basse Cour de Moulins, parish of St. Rémy du Plain, Maine)
Petition Signed, in French with translation or summary in English,
to the Seneschal of Maine "or to the Lieutenant General in the Seneschalcy and President's Seat of Justice of Le Mans", signed also by his barrister Louis Brizbare, saying that the land depends on the "Abbaye de la Couture", and that "he had been appointed commissary of Maître Pierre Menaut, Steward Sequestrator of ... the temporals of the said Abbey vacant by the decease of Monsieur de Chamilly, to the extent of half the fruit and grain planted on the said land by the late Paul Foullard and Catherine Adam his wife", but that the local poll-tax collectors for 1705 had laid claim on it for the part planted by Foullard, the Petitioner has harvested, threshed and winnowed the said grain, but as he still has to face the loss of half, to be discharged from his commission, and to recover all his expenses including "travel, attendance and threshing", he petitions to be allowed to auction the grain "on a feast day or Sunday in the Cemetery at the end of Vespers at the parish church ... before the senior royal notary", the appropriate signed orders follow, stamp at head with the arms of Le Mans, 4 sides 4to., Le Mans, no date. and 16th-24th July
slight fading on final page
Item Date:
1706
Stock No:
19494
£325
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DWYTH
(John, senior, of Capel St. Mary, Suffolk)
Confirmation of grant in perpetuity to William Reve, clerk, of Capel,
in Latin with translation, of "a dwelling in Capel, bounded by Maryons Lane on the east ... the tenement of the said William Reve formerly Samsons on the west ... south by ... Grottes and north by the king's highway from Ipswich to Colchester", Dwyth formerly held it jointly with Reve and with "John Goffe of Grottes and William Petytt, [both] now deceased, of the grant and enfeoffment of John Page of Wherstede John Herde John Page of Freston and Thomas Clerke of Kersey", attractive decorated initial 'S', vellum, 1 side 5¾" x 13½", Capel, 29th December
lacks seal
Item Date:
1523
Stock No:
17994
£275
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