WALPOLE
(Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, 1st British Prime Minister)
Small Portion of Printed Exchequer Document with a fine signature on the verso
"Robert Walpole Esq: In Repayment of Loans on Several Impositions, Additional Impositions and Duties, for the Service of the War, Anno 1710, without Interest, till my Lord Treasurer's Warrant directs it ...",
Item Date:
1710
Stock No:
39158
£125
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WALPOLE
(Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, 1st British Prime Minister), Sir William YONGE (4th Baronet, dc. 1693-1755, Politician, Secretary at War) & George DODINGTON (1691-1762, MP, Lord of the Treasury)
Lower part of a Manuscript Exchequer Document signed by all three, addressed to Lord Onslow,
also signed by Wm. Strickland, the charge "bearing date of 30th day of June 1720 that you deliver and pay of such his Majt Treasures as remains in your Charge unto Charles Duke of Queensbury or his assigns the sum of Two hundred and fifty pounds without amount for one quarter of a year due ... on his Annuity of one thousand pounds as one of the Gentlemen of his Matys Bedchamber ...", with a note underneath to Lord Onslow to "pay this order Out of Duty on Tea ...",examined by Halifax, bottom two thirds of 1 side folio, Whitehall, 8th January
Item Date:
1725
Stock No:
39218
£375
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KENTISH MUSTER SIGNED BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE'S PATRON
WALSINGHAM
(Sir Thomas, 1561-1630, of Scadbury, Chislehurst, Courtier to Queen Elizabeth I and literary patron to Christopher Marlowe and other poets)
Extremely Rare Letter Signed 'Thos Walsingham', at the foot of an Autograph Letter by Sir John Scott of Kent,
being a Kentish Muster addressed to Sir William TWYSDEN (1566-1639, 1st Baronet, Politician), requiring Twysden to have his company in full effect, that it "may be fitt to appeare before the muster maister at Cockesheath, uppon the fivetenth day of October, by eight of the clock in the morning ...", the text almost certainly in the hand of Sir John Scott, signed by Scott, Walsingham and John Levyt, 1 side folio with integral autograph address leaf with remnant of a small seal, no place, 28th July
Item Date:
1608
Stock No:
41602
£2750
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[WAVERLEY
(Ava, née Bodley, 1896-1974, wife, first of Ralph Follet Wigram and secondly of Cabinet Minister Sir John Anderson, Political and Society Hostess)]
Beautiful Portrait Photograph by Dorothy Wilding,
showing her seated nearly full length in profile, turned three quarter face to the viewer, with a charming expression, in her robes for the Coronation of Elizabeth II, showing her coronet of (16) silver balls, the 2 stripes of ermine and 2½ inches of bordering on her left sleeve as a Viscountess, no place, no date but
Item Date:
1953
Stock No:
56775
£175
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WEBB
(Sidney, Lord Passfield, 1859-1947, Social Reformer, Fabian)
Autograph Letter Signed to Levy,
telling him that E. R. Seligman has written from Austria "saying that he would much like to read some of the papers in the recently issued vol 2 of the transactions of the Political Economy Circle of the N.L.C. ... He thinks one may have been sent already to America ..." but wants another, 2 sides 8vo., 41 Grosvenor Road, Westminster Embankment, 23rd July
Item Date:
1896
Stock No:
3635
£35
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