MANUSCRIPT CHEQUE
in a clerk's hand, signed by the drawer Henry Handy Jr.,
for £9 to G.M. Counsel Esq., 3¾" x 8", Messrs Berwick Lechmere Wall and Isaac, Worcester Old Bank, 9th December
Item Date:
1824
Stock No:
18865
£25
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MANUSCRIPT LEAF
Attractively written leaf from a Manuscript in Latin,
from a treatise on the Old Testament High Priest and Priesthood ('De Pontifice & Sacerdotibus'), here discussing the meaning of the Hebrew 'segen' which the writer takes to be a general word for 'deputy', quoting from the O.T. and from Lardner's 'Credibility of the Gospel History', Selden, Preland, and Maimonides, sides numbered 35 & 36, sections 104-112, English, no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1730
Stock No:
52950
£45
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MAORI CHIEF
Unsigned Carte de visiite photo by H. Webster in Auckland
showing a Maori Chief wearing feathers in his hair and holding a club, inscribed underneath in pencil "Wi Paora, Tauranga", 4" x 2½", Auckland, no date but circa
Item Date:
1864
Stock No:
40508
£225
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ANNULMENT OF A CHILD MARRIAGE
MARCER
(Emelene, of Halsall) and HUNTER (Thomas, of Aughton, both near Ormskirk, Lancashire)
Copies of the Draft Depositions of the witnesses on each side,
including the husband, in English, and of the Final Decree by Robert Leche, LL.D., principal officer of the Archdeacon of Chester's court, in Latin, all with transcriptions. Thomas Tatlock, 56, and William Scarsbrick, 40, who had known both since infancy, depone for Emelene, that at the time of the marriage, 2½ years previously at the house of Thomas Halsall, by "Sir James, Curat of Formbie", Emelene was "about ten years of age" and Thomas "not above thirteen", even on the morning of the marriage the children "knewe nott of ytt but were compelled ... by there parents", Thomas Hunter refers to his coming "to lawfull yeares of discretion", Emelene had lived at his father's house till last Christmas, but "he could not abyde the saide Emelene and never woulde", he approached Scarsbrick as his kinsman, and Tatlock as his father's executor, to procure a divorce, he had never "saide or done any acte that he thincketh in his conscience hee ought to have her to his wife" and vouches for her virginity, he can not tell "whye they were maried in a howse" instead of in church. The final decree says that everything has been thoroughly considered, confirms that nothing Thomas has done invalidates his claim, that the marriage is annulled and both are free to remarry with a clear conscience. The depositions 4 sides 12" x 8¼", the judgment 1 side 11" x 10½", Chester, 24th March 1579 (new style
the depositions, neatly restored at top and bottom with old paper, with loss of a number of words or phrases (most can be supplied by context
Item Date:
1580
Stock No:
17635
£475
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MARSH
(Herbert, 1757-1839, Biblical scholar and political writer, from 1819 Bishop of Peterborough)
Frank signed to Mr Wasey in Wardington, Banbury,
Peterborough, 8th September
Item Date:
1821
Stock No:
51898
£10
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