INITIAL LETTER PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM III
[WILLIAM III
(of Orange, 1650-1702, King of Great Britain)]
Fine Exemplification of the Common Recovery with Double Voucher,
in Latin with transcription and translation, by Robert Snell, (Demandant), from Nathaniel Athill & Richard Warner, (Tenants to the Praecipe or Writ), of “4 dwellings 4 gardens 60 acres of land 10 acres of meadow and 60 acres of pasture”, in North Tuddenham, Elsinge, Lyng, Swanton Morley, Bylaugh and Hockering, villages E or NE of Dereham in Norfolk, heard before Sir George TREBY, (circa 1644-1700, from 1692 Chief Justice of the Common Pleas) or his brethren, and implemented by Richard Mason, Esq., Sheriff of Norfolk, involving William Browne (the original Tenant i.e. Owner in Tail), and John Craike (Common Vouchee), headed by a fine engraved initial letter portrait of William III, surrounded by elaborate penmanship, 8½” x 8”, and continuing with a magnificent engraved border embodying the Lion & Unicorn defying Neptune and Jupiter, 6¾” x 20¾”, vellum, ruled in red, 19¾” x 29¼” in frame 21½” x 30¾”, Westminster, [12th February] 1698, postscript added in Easter fortnight
lacking seal, line 19 folded over in order to insert original postscript, obscuring text (easily supplied) and clerk’s name
Item Date:
1698
Stock No:
53840
£475
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WILLIAM IV
(1765-1837, King of Great Britain)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed 'William' as Duke of Clarence to 'My Dear Lord'
saying that he is "interested in the welfare of Lieutenant Delafosse of the York, I beg leave to introduce this young officer to your Lordship's kind notice and protection. I believe him to be one of merit and worthy of promotion. I always embrace every opportunity with pleasure of calling myself to your Lordship ...", 1 side 4to., Bushey House, 14th June
Item Date:
1809
Stock No:
39562
£375
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WILLIAM IV
(1765-1837, King of Great Britain)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed as Duke of Clarence 'William' to 'My dear Lord'
saying that he is "sorry Your Lordship had the trouble of calling on me whilst out of town and I feel sensibly the attention of your Lordship and the sheriffs. I regret my sister Princess Augusta with a large party being here at the time of the annual Festival at Guildhall will prevent my having the advantage of personally seeing your Lordship ...", 1 side 4to., Bushy House, 22nd October
Item Date:
1825
Stock No:
41000
£375
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WILLIAM IV
(1765-1837, King of Great Britain)
Fine very large Signature from a Document,
with some text on the verso "for so doing this shall be your Warrant ...", 9½" x 4", with papered seal, Windsor Castle, 16th July
Item Date:
1835
Stock No:
40929
£125
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POLITICAL LETTER FROM WILLIAM IV OF ORANGE
WILLIAM IV
(1711-1751 Prince of Orange and Hereditary Stadtholder of the United Provinces)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed in French with translation
saying he has drawn up “the attached document along with the necessary papers, by which Your Highness may see that it was indeed as an officer, and in no way as a gentleman—as has been falsely suggested—that I placed Munnichhausen under arrest. I have kept him there still, and that for the following reasons: if I were to consider the duration of his arrest as a punishment, he could only thank me for it; and since he has made no gesture of admission or regret for having offended me, I cannot be satisfied. To release him from arrest with orders not to appear before me again would be to restore things to their former state and give him an opportunity to repeat the same insolence. To send him for a few days to the Provost seemed to me a punishment more severe than the apology I am entitled to demand; yet I have not wished to do so, in order to show all the more clearly to everyone how gently I treat him despite his unheard of obstinacy. Finally, I hesitated, on the last day of fasting, whether I should simply release him; but fearing that it would be regarded less as an act of generosity and clemency than as timid compliance—because of the intention he is said and assured to have of appealing to the States—I resolved not to do so. I have decided to wait for the Great Diet to see whether he will have the impudence to bring his alleged complaints to the States, which would be an unheard of and novel case under the sun— that a petty officer should complain of his Captain-General to the States, who entrusted the command and care of all military matters to the governor and the deputies of the province. In the times in which we live, I should not be surprised by anything that happens; thus, if part or even the majority of the States place me in conflict with the lieutenant of my bodyguards and demand an account of my conduct, I shall not be shaken. Yet I well know that by acting in such a way they will ruin the service, undermine subordination, and degrade themselves...”, 3 sides 4to., Leeuwarden, 19th January
Item Date:
1751
Stock No:
43697
£775
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