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Lot 33
Ephemera – Railways – a fatal accident 1910 printed official report of the fate collision between and express passenger train and two light engines near Hawes Junction on the Midland Railway in 1910. The accident involved the midnight express from St Pancras to Glasgow which hit two slower trains south of Carlisle –12 people were killed. Folio 37pp.
Lot 35
Railways – ms document being a copy of resolutions of the board for the North Union Railway which including the Lancaster and Preston Railway and the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway written in a rather hasty hand on 4pp folio dated May 1st but not year but clearly a contemporary copy. Marked at top ‘Private & not to be communicated except to members of survey & act committee. It is most likely that this document was written before the building of the railways and deals with various matters in order to get the railway established. Together with group of letters and copy letters 1847 all concerning the building of a railway line in Chirk North Wales mainly for mineral operations.
Lot 37
Ephemera – Oxford University printed invitation in the name of William Lancaster Provost of Queen’s College Oxford to celebrate his appointment at Oxford University dated February 5th 1706 folio 8pp some browning but otherwise good. Featuring an engraved vignette showing the Sheldonian Theatre to front and two large vignettes to text and an engraved vignette to rear. Privately printed by Lancaster and numbered ‘20’ in ms to top right hand corner.
Lot 145
English Civil War – Cromwell is invited to name his successor The Humble Petition and Advice presented unto His Highness the Lord Protector by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses assembled at the Parliament... together with His Highness Consent unto the said petitions. 1657 folio 30pp unbound good condition. It was in this year that Parliament offered Cromwell the Crown of England which he refused. Had he done so there would have been an in-built mechanism for the succession passing to his first born son. However it was obvious that some sort of continuity of leadership was required and by this petition Parliament was making it clear to Cromwell that he needed to name someone who would take over the reigns of power on his death. By this petition Parliament set out various principles for the governance of the country – and in particular ensuring that the Monarchy would not be restored nor any influence from Papists would be allowed. In the event Cromwell’s grip on power was only to last another year and the succession was passed disastrously to his second son Richard.
Lot 147
English Civil War The Lord’s Day Observance Act – Oliver Cromwell An Act for the Better Obervation of the Lord’s Day 1657 folio 17pp plus title disbound. One of the crucial Acts of Cromwell’s protectorate. He effectively banned any sort of amusement entertainment or fun so that everyone could observe the Sabbath.
Lot 150
English Civil War – Charles II assumes control of the Army An Act for Ordering the forces in the several countries of this Kingdom printed Act of Parliament dated 1662 folio 26pp plus title. A subtle manoeuvre by the King whereby he actually took over the control of the Army which as the Act states : ‘...ever was the undoubted Right of His Majesty and his Royal predecessors Kings and Queens of England and that both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot nor ought to pretend to the same nor can nor lawfully may raise or levy any war offensive or defensive against his Majesty his heirs or lawful successors and yet the contrary thereof hath of late years been practices almost to the ruine and destruction of this Kingdom...’ To this day the control of the Armed forces of this country and the ability to declare war remain with the Royal prerogative.
Lot 172
Hertfordshire – Buntingford – licence for an alehouse fine and unusual ms document dated 1608 being a licence for a ‘common alea house tippling and victualling house’ at Burntingford Herts. Written in an early 17th c hand and signed by six members of the local licencing Justices of the Peace. 1p folio with unrelated notes to verso in good condition
Lot 177
Richard III remarkable manuscript chronicle of the events of the reign of Edward IV and Richard III written in English in a neat hand. No date but clearly Tudor and with a watermark which suggests a date of the late 1570s. Folio 4pp taken from a larger ms volume. A remarkable document which contains a description of Richard III as ‘little of stature...broke backed...his left shoulder much higher than his right hard furrowed of visage...he was malicious wrathfull envious ...it is for truth reported that ...he came into the world with the foote forwards...’ The ms also deals with the rise of Edward IV and his defeat of Henry VI. It also deals the death of the Duke of Clarence who is describes as ‘a goodly noble Prince and at all points fortunate if either his own ambition had not set him against his brother or the envy of his enemies [had set] his brother against him...for were it by the Queen and the lords of her blood which falsely maligned the Kinges kindred (and women commonly not of malice but of nature hate them whome their husbande love) or more it an appetite of the Duke himself intending to be Kinge...attainted was he by parliament and (?) to the death and thereupon hastily drowned in a butt of Malmesy whose death Kinge Edward (albeit he commanded it) when he wit that it was done bewailed and sorrowfully repented...’ The manuscript also deals with the Princes in the Tower and the last words of Edward IV on his deathbed. The events which are so graphically described in this manuscript are so close to the version which is depicted in Shakespeare’s play of Richard III thought to have been written in 1592 that this version must have been the accepted and authorised late Elizabethan view of both the events themselves and also the pen portrait of Richard III as a deformed squat figure whose birth in the currency of the time would have suggested that he had been spawned by the devil. The death of Clarence is particularly interesting in that it gives a picture much akin to the Shakespearean one – though putting the blame very much on Clarence’s ambition against Edward IV rather than the scheming of Richard to attain the throne himself. The section dealing with the young princes is also illuminating though falls short of actually accusing Richard of killing them.
Lot 213
English Civil War An Act of the Commons assembled in Parliament for the settling the Militia of the City of Westminster... 1649. Printed Act of Parliament unbound folio 10pp good condition. An Act which lists the various names of many of the Regicides and other hardliners who were formed into the organising committee for the Militia of Westminster – set up to keep the public in order.
Lot 216
English Civil War – Oliver Cromwell An Act for Indemnifying of such persons as have acted for the Service of the Publique at the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th day of September 1656. Folio disbound. 6pp. Wing E1042. A whitewash for anything which was used by Cromwell to suppress rebellion against the Commonwealth in the years following his accession as Lord Protector.
Lot 222
Charles II – Earl of Anglesey – manuscript document dated 1663 bearing the name of the Earl of Anglesey to base being ‘A Protest by several of ye Peers against ye Trade Bill’ written in a neat legible hand on both side of a leaf of paper folio. The document lists nine objections on various grounds to the proposed trade bill. Arthur Annesley 1st Earl of Anglesey was an Irish born peer who had a reputation for independent thought in Parliament. He alone signed this protest because he reasoned (as contained in the present document) that the Trade Bill would lead eventually to a trade deficit – and in particular he objected to the ban on the importation of Irish cattle contained in the Bill.
Lot 239
Wellington and Waterloo – autograph – Sir Colin Campbell fine document signed as Commander of His Majesty’s Forces in Gibraltar dated November 24th 1810 being a pay warrant issued to Alexander Farquhar Act Deputy Paymaster with further document acknowledging payment signed off by Major General Sir John Fraser. Partially printed documents with ms insertions in fine condition 2pp folio
Lot 370
Autographs – South Africa an original copy of the printed Bill declaring South Africa a Republic and setting out the constitution of the new State printed in English and Afrikaans dated January 1961.Folio 65pp. This has been signed to front by all the members of the South African Parliament including the leading figures not only in the promotion of the new South African State but the most notorious names in the history of Apartheid in the Country notably H F Verwoerd known for ever as the ‘Architect of Apartheid. This is considered to be the only copy in existence which is so signed and as such is a major historical document not only for the modern history of South Africa but of the history of the growth of Apartheid in that country. South Africa ceded from the British Commonwealth and declared itself a Republic by this document – with the date set for May 31st 1961. This had followed a referendum throughout the country in the previous year – notably only devoted to the white population and which was only passed with a vote of 52.29% in favour. There had been years of wrangling between the two major factions in the white populations – notably those who still held allegiance to Britain and who were generally opposed to Apartheid and the Boers who were largely in favour of establishing Black homelands and developing the whole business of racial division. Harold Macmillan’s ‘Wind of Change’ speech left the more conservatives of the British feeling abandoned and so they moved towards the Verwoerd philosophies – and thus South Africa began its long history of isolation from the rest of the world only being accepted fully into the world communities again following the release from custody of Nelson Mandela and the dismantling of the who mechanism of Apartheid under F W de Klerk. Together with a printed document dated April 10th 1961 being the Minutes of the House of Assembly [written in Afrikaans] setting up the Government of the new State.
Lot 379
A famous legal case which lasted almost 70 years ! Autograph – Queen Victoria – legal document signed ‘Victoria R.I.’ at head 3pp folio dated December 22nd 1868 being a licence to plead for Sir John Duke Coleridge (Great Nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge) who at the time was the Solicitor General. Coleridge was here licensed to act on behalf of Jean Ralston Shedden in what was one of the longest running cases in British legal history and which exposed the complex law of illegitimacy in the nineteenth century and its relationship to questions of national belonging and subject-hood. The case began as Shedden v Patrick a dispute over legitimacy and property which opened in 1804 and lasted until 1869. William Shedden was born in America of a Scottish father who had married his mother but after his birth. His claim that he should inherit the Shedden family estate in Scotland as both his father`s lawful son and a natural-born British subject brought together a bewildering array of laws as formal and informal partnerships in the former colony together with the discrepant legitimacy codes of England and Scotland were brought to bear on inheritance claims based on laws of nationality and domicility. Shedden`s fight to prove his legitimacy led to the passing of the Legitimacy Declaration Act in 1858 but it also gave rise to a series of legal debates on the nature of personal status and to the complex ways in which both personal legitimacy and nationality operate as legal fictions. The original Shedden actually died before he could see his fight completed but it was taken up for him at first by his son William a noted Russian Scholar and then by his daughter – the subject of this document. By the time the case had got this far it was a matter of the Solicitor General fighting the case on behalf of the Sedden Family against the Attorney General – and in fact the case was fought in front of a Committee of the House of Lords and lasted 30 days. By the end of the whole thing there wasn’t much money left ! An unusual document signed by Queen Victoria with a fascinating history.
Lot 456
Shropshire – Wem ms ledger being the day book of Thomas Gaty & Sons of 4 Mill Street Wem house joiners and cabinet makers as well as undertakers covering the period 1913 to 1962 approx 245 pp folio detailing bespoke joinery work cabinet making furnishing polishing and upholstery and contracts undertaken in Wem and the surrounding area with names and addresses of customers and details of costings payments etc. Included are entries for work on the Myddle Church War Memorial commenced in 1919 (with payment still outstanding in 1923!) work on Wem Church including the organ the Parker Memorial Screen and the Wem Grammar School war memorial.
Lot 30
HILTON, Roger Lambirth, Andrew. Roger Hilton the figured language of thought. Illust, cloth in d/w, 4to, Thames & Hudson, 2007. Hilton, Rosemary. Roger Hilton Night Letters and selected drawings. Illust, card covers, folio, Newlyn Orion Galleries, 1980 (two copies). Tate Gallery. Into Seeing New the Art of Roger Hilton. With other books, catalogues, cards, etc relating to Roger Hilton. (a lot)
Lot 235
ETON Eton Songs Written by Arthur Campbell Ainger Set To Music by Joseph Barnby Illustrated by Herbert Marshall, cont. full gilt morocco, 4to, Leadenhall Press, 1891-2. With - The Eton Choirbook Facsimile and introductory study by Magnus Williamson, morocco, folio, Diamm Facsimiles, 2010. (2)
Lot 326
BEER Act of Parliament - `for making a Harbour in the Cove of Beer`, boards, folio, 1792. With - Chalk, E.S - Kentisbeare, illust, org. cloth, 8vo, 1934. With - Parish of Topsham, Marriages, Baptisms & Burials, part 1, disbound (as published), 4to, 1938. With a box of books relating to East Devon. (box)
![CROCKER, James [another copy] - Sketches of Old Exeter with letter press, 60 plates, org. half vellum, folio, 1886.](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/35909/2870766/354-20138517511_468x382.jpg)
![PAGE, William (ed) - Victoria History of the County of Devon vol 1 [all published], illust, org. cloth, folio, 1906. With one](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/35909/2870766/459-20138517810_468x382.jpg)
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