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
£25
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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
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Item Date:
1523
Stock No:
17994
£275
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EARDLEY
(Sir Culling Eardley, formerly Smith, 1805-1863, founded the Evangelical Alliance in 1846, Bart.)
Autograph Letter in the third person as Sir Culling Eardley Smith to Messrs Glaisyer,
asking them to put "the Citric acid ... in a common wide mouthed bottle" and to replace it "with carbonate of soda", 1 side 8vo., The Park, 24th August
Item Date:
1837
Stock No:
18875
£45
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EARLE
(Rev. John, 1824-1903, Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr W. Sandford,
saying he would "be happy but I have an engagement for Sunday", 1 side small 8vo, 1st March
remains of 3 narrow glued strips on recto, one touching one letter of address and one touching foot of 'J' in signature
Item Date:
1877
Stock No:
17083
£10
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