PATTESON
(Sir John, 1790-1861, Judge of the King's Bench )
Charming autograph letter signed to his brother Edward,
saying his gout "while it stayed was very trifling so I had no chance of being a cook in a rage", they have had "long letters from Coley", his son John Coleridge PATTESON (1827-1871, from 1861 Bishop of Melanesia), "last date November 23rd - they got back to Auckland on the 17th. ... They visited 66 Islands & landed 81 times - never in danger from the natives but once, when two arrows were shot at their boat as they went off: one went over their heads & the other fell 10 yards short - He is very hopeful of doing good, but bitterly laments that there are so few labourers in the Vineyard & of those few many not of the right sort - How should it be otherwise, well-educated men won't go, & half-educated men do almost more harm than good", he rejoices that "you have good accounts from Franky; he is a plucky fellow to have shaken off the fever & marched up to Cawnpore &c", while "Colin ... plans & executes, careful of the lives of his men, leaving nothing to chance ... You see we have knocked up the Denison case - I was quite satisfied on carefully considering the Act of Parliament that we could not come to any other conclusion. I hope that the Archdeacon will not provoke another attack", he is "poor" but sends "a cheque for the Church £5 self - £2 Joan ... It is all very well Rowland Hill making a scapegoat of the Cullompton Postmistress, who no doubt was the primary cause: but the transmission of letters through London is shameful at the London Post Office", 4 sides 8vo.(of which one side is black edged), Feniton Court, Honiton, 9th February
Item Date:
1858
Stock No:
54263
£350
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PEABODY
(George, 1795-1869, American Philanthropist, Founder of Peabody Buildings)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Sir James' ( TENNENT , 1804-1869, traveller, politician and author),
promising to find out "the maker of Mr: Pickersgill's billiard table", he will call on him on his way to London and bring back details of "room, Table, lamps, cues, seats &c. &c.", with a press cutting dated 20th June 1869 saying that "the Queen is very sorry that Mr. Peabody" had left suddenly for America, owing to illness, she had wished to see him and offer "her personal thanks", the letter 1 side 8vo., Grand Hotel, Brighton, 15th February
Item Date:
1866
Stock No:
51907
£375
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PEABODY
(George, 1795-1869, Philanthropist, Founder of Peabody Buildings)
Signature from an Autograph Letter Signed inscribed "Very truly yours",
mounted with a contemporary engraving from a photograph by Mayall 9¾" x 6¾"
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
11451
£75
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AN EXCHANGE IN THE DORDOGNE
PÉCANY
(Damoiselle Marthe de Alba, widow of Antoine de Courson, Sieur de Pécany near Bergerac)
Attractive copy Document, written and certified at the same time as the original
by notary Famouze of Pomport, 10 km SSW of Bergerac, in French with translation, granting to Pierre Aymeric of Pouzy in the parish of nearby Cunèges, Sieur de Fouroumane, "for their mutual convenience" one 'pongnee' (poignée, literally 'fistful') of land in Ratouble called La Cantaloube, on the main road from Pomport to Bergerac, in exchange for two poignées in Labenne within La Cantaloube, bounded by the Causse stream, each property lying within three sides of the other's, the Lady also declares that she gave Pierre's late father François "permission to make a ditch ... within ... La Cantaloube ... under a promise to grant her other land on the edge of the said ditch ... which he did not do", but as Fouroumane "has granted her a greater quantity of land the said Lady acquits and releases the said ditch ... and strip for him to enjoy as ... heretofore", with Famouze's signature and cipher of three 'F's, 2 sides 4to., title on conjugate leaf, Pomport, 31st October
Item Date:
1663
Stock No:
17999
£95
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PÉGON
(Jean, 1589 or 1590-1675, of Langeac, from 1649 General of the Carthusian Order)
Document signed and subscribed in his attractive hand,
in French with translation, to Joachim, Count of Quincé and of the Holy Roman Empire, Lieutenant General of the Camps and Armies of the King (Louis XIV) in Piedmont, granting in return for "the ancient affection that you have for our Order ... besides the share you have long had in all our exercises of devotion ... an anniversary ... in perpetuity ... on the day of your decease, for the repose of your soul", his name to be inscribed "in the Calendars of all our houses when God shall in turn call you to Himself", vellum, heading in red, gilt border, 6½" x 11¾", La Grande Chartreuse, Dauphiné (now in upper Isère), 22nd August
lacks seal
Item Date:
1654
Stock No:
18924
£265
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