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A Royal Doulton Figure: 'Lily', HN 1798 (manuscript),

A Royal Doulton Figure:'Marie' manuscript details, in pink dress, HN1417,

18th CENTURY MANUSCRIPT COOKERY RECEIPTS; a folio manuscript volume containing approximately 60 culinary, medical and household receipts including Cheap Bread; Method of curing Butter; For destroying Buggs; To make Paco:lila or Indian Pickle; To make Egg Varnish for Pictures and For Consumptive Subjects, this requiring the essence of three boiled vipers and a pint of snails. Together with, at front, a manuscript account of the salvage of a ship, dated 1771, also accounts relating to Estate at Leckhamstead in Bucks, Estate of Cold Norton, Fairbridge, Essex; a full-page Ode by Sir William Jones and a List of Coaches that pass Henley, etc, folio, contemporary full vellum, the remainder of the volume unused and containing much good quality 18th century paper with the 'G.R.' and 'Propatria' watermarks.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE ESTATES SURVEY; Manuscript 'Particular of the Estate and Manor of Woolshop situate in the Parish of Quedgley in te Couty of Glocester [sic] the Property of Charles Hayward Esq. - The Premises consists of a Genteel Mansion House ... with walls well covered with Fruit Trees a Green House, Hothouses, etc.' Together with surveys of Hayward's estates at Ashchurch, Gloucestershire and Eldersfield in Worcestershire, surveyed by J. Stone, 1792. In all approximately 50-pages, narrow folio, old calf, rubbed.

Armitage (Albert Borlase, Captain, Antarctic explorer, second in command, navigator of the "Discovery" & magnetic observer on the National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04, 1864-1943) Private Journal (Chiefly Personal) of Events on the "National Antarctic Expedition" in the S.S. "Discovery" under Commander Robert F. Scott, R.N by Albert Armitage Lieut R.N.R. 2nd in Command of, and Navigator to the Expedition, [Winter Quarters], autograph manuscript, with many altered or unpublished remarks, many on Scott & other members of the expedition, also magnetic Positions, observations on the weather and temperatures, & topography, geology and wildlife of Antarctica, title and 251pp. Excluding blanks, on blue lined paper, 2 ink sketches, comprising a sketch of a sledge with drive traces and a sketch of an ice measure vent, first f. Hole slightly affecting text, one or two other smaller holes, front endpapers, title and all to p. 12 extensively damp-stained though still legible, pp. 13-62 (including 24 blank pp.) with some marks due to damp, pp. 1-3 loose, some ff. Excised, some pp. Blue paper faded to white, front endpapers with the remains of recipes pasted down, original half calf, upper cover detached, upper cover and spine damp-stained, [cf. Spence 67], folio, 24th December 1901 - 31st January 1904.

Report of the Expedition "into the Interior of South Victoria Land... With a View to Finding a Pass through the High Mountains to the Westward of our Quarters", autograph manuscript addressed to Captain Scott & signed by the author, 114pp. including 2pp. "Note on health of Party" and 2pp. "Note on Equipment", written on rectos only, small tear slightly affecting two words on two lines at tail, slightly browned, stitched together with string, loose in the original blotting paper and later card covers, Armitage (Albert Borlase, Captain, Antarctic explorer, second in command, navigator of the "Discovery" & magnetic observer on the National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04, 1864-1943) [cf. Spence 67], sm. 4to, "Winter Quarters", [January-February] 1903.

Armitage (Albert Borlase, Captain, Antarctic explorer, second in command, navigator of the "Discovery" & magnetic observer on the National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04, 1864-1943) Oates from an Echo of the Spheres [by] H.W. Bain March 16 1912, ["Down in the South, where the Blizzards blow; Oates went forth to his death Alone!", first and last lines], autograph manuscript fair copy by Armitage, 4pp., folds, foxed and browned, 8vo, 16th March 1912; and 2 others photographs including a portrait of Armitage and the other of 3 ?members of an expedition, 8vo & 4to (3).

Markham (Sir Clements Robert, geographer and historical writer, a member of the Royal Society and President of the Royal Geographical Society, 1830-1916) The Threshold of the Unknown Region, fourth edition, Sir Clement Markham's copy with his circular bookplate on front pastedown, inscribed by Armitage: "Presented to "Discovery's" library by Sir Clements Markham, also further inscriptions by Armitage, 5 folding colour maps (1 defective with most lost), 1p. Of manuscript notes tipped-in, browned, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, upper joint splitting, 8vo, 1876. (3M3).

Percy (Algernon Heber and Alice Heber) Journal from March 22 1894 to May 25 1894, 134pp.; Journal from April 1895 to June 25 1895, 103pp., original pencil & ink drawings, some mounted; Journal from April 2 1896 to May 21 1896, 107pp., 3 vol., manuscript, some mounted original pencil & ink drawings, contemporary half calf, 2 spines defective, 4to, [1894-96]. (3).

Semple (Robert) Sketch of the Present State of Caracas..., first edition, 6pp. Catalogue at end, final leaf defective at corner, ex-Signet Library copy with ink manuscript note on front free endpaper and shelf-label, contemporary half calf, Signet arms in gilt on covers, rubbed, [Sabin 79088], 8vo, 1812.

Lawrence (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a Triumph, first edition, one of 170 complete copies so inscribed by Lawrence, 66 plates including "Prickly Pear Plate" not listed, (most colour, some photographic reproductions, 4 double-page) , illustrations, by Eric Kennington, Paul Nash, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Roberts and others, pictorial endpapers by Kennington, 2 folding colour maps, each in duplicate, without the Paul Nash line drawings called for on pp. 92 & 208, first map with later folds, autograph manuscript correction by Lawrence in List of Illustrations, very occasional foxing on a few pp., with some related ephemera comprising a specimen printing of the first Seven Chapters of "Seven Pillars", a proof from the Oxford printing of 1922, a notice from Lawrence explaining the delay of "Seven Pillars" and a tribute: "Lawrence - The Man" by Sir Ronald Storrs, later pencil inscription on front free endpaper: "From the Library of H.G. Wells sold at 13 Hanover Terrace, Regents Park, NW1", bound in contemporary blue crushed morocco, gilt spine, corners bumped, t.e.g., others uncut, by Best, sm. 4to, 1926.

AFTER CARLE VERNET (1758-1836) PASSEZ PAYEZ; LE COUP DE VENT; LA MARCHANDE DE SAUCISSES; LE TOUR DE BARBE D'UN CHARBONNIER; ADIEU D'UN RUSSE A UNE PARISIENNE; LA PARTIE DE PLAISIR; LE MARCHAND DE PEAU DE LAPIN; TAMBOUR MAJOR ET SAPEUR DE LA GARDE NATIONALE Eight aquatints with hand colouring, trimmed to image and laid down onto washline and manuscript mounts,the largest 30 x 25cm. (8) ++ Some foxing and soiling; some wear and tear

THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE, manuscript copy in Griffiths' handwriting of the book published by Stanley Paul in 1958.

Anon. The London Complete Art of Cookery...also The Complete Brewer. London: William Lane 1797. Lacks frontis, some worm. Full cf. Small 8vo; Hayward, Abraham. The Art of Dining; or, Gastronomy and Gastronomers. London 1853 (2nd edn). Cl. 12mo; and a manuscript recipe book from circa 1881 to 1925. Full vellum. 12mo. (3).

Allen (Thomas). The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and Parts Adjacent, pub. Virtue, 5 vols., 1837, addn. eng. title to each, numerous eng. plts., plans and woodcuts to text etc., one missing text leaf provided in manuscript, contemp. half calf gilt, worn, spines defective with loss, 8vo (5)

*Anne (1665-1714, Queen). Four manuscript sheets of code words for February, March and April, 1703/4, each sheet written to rectos only with two columns 'For the Court' and 'For the Citty', the first leaf with conjugate (det.) and signed by Queen Anne at head of document, all leaves somewhat browned, folio (4)

*Cleveland - Elizabeth I. A magnificent manuscript vellum Exemplification document, dated 10th October 1586, from Ralph Bowes and his wife Joan, to William Bowes, Knight, William Bayte, and Thomas Bayte for the Manors of Nunthorpe, Stainton and Thorneton, with twenty-four messuages, twenty cottages, three dovecotes, thirty tofts, thirty gardens, thirty orchards, one thousand acres of land, five hundred acres of meadow, one thousand acres of pasture, forty acres of wood, one thousand acres more land, together with rents and common pasture in Nunthorpe, Stainton, Thorneton, Ryall Hill, Newbye, Middleton, Battersby, Ingleby and Yarm, written in a fine dark Chancery script and with a complete Great Chancery Seal of Elizabeth I, showing the Queen seated on throne with Orb and sceptre, with translation. Complete examples of the Great Chancery Seal of Elizabeth I are scarce. (1)

Coaching. Post-Chaise from London to Salisbury, c. 1790, A printed single-page notice advertising the service, "This is to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and others, that neat Post-Chaise, with able Horses, and Careful Drivers, may be had at the undermentioned Places and Prices, and be conveyed from London to Salisbury in twelve Hours", listing nine inns between The Plough in Leicester-Fields, and the Blacksmith's Arms at Thorny Down, giving the mileage and prices between each, and the names of the landlords, slight staining and a few minor tears, no loss of letterpress. With a manuscript account of expenses for a journey made partly on this post-chaise, and then continuing westward (?into Cornwall) on the reverse. (1)

*Cookery. Manuscript recipe book, c. mid 19th c., approx. 80pp. incl. later additions, insertions and newscuttings, index at rear, recipes include elder wine, the Queen's favourite soap, apple cheese, champagne from unripe grapes, calves' feet jelly, etc., hinges broken, orig. vellum, soiled and lower cover damaged, 4to (1)

*Early Wills. Scarce group of five manuscript probate wills and contemporary copies of wills, dating from 19th September 1575 (16 pages), 23rd November 1605, 25th August 1646, 19th February 1655 (10 pages) and 5th may 1674, detailing final bequests including one to the Free Grammer School of King Edward I, in Bury St Edmunds (5)

*Essex - Manor of Longbarnes. A most attractive vellum manuscript Exemplification Recovery document, dated 22nd November 1624, in bold chancery script, with decorative initial letters, and top margin decorated in ink and plumbago, between John Poole, Anne his wife against Edward Stoakes, Elizabeth his wife, Richard Weston, knight and Frances his wife for the recovery of the Manor of Longbarnes with appurtenances and three messuages, two cottages, two tofts, two gardens, one hundred and ninety acres of land, ten acres of meadow, twenty acres of pasture, sixty shillings of rents, tithes, etc., in Beauchampe Rothinge, etc., (with translation). Richard Weston (1577-1635) was first Earl of Portland, Lord Chancellor, Statesman and Diplomat. (1)

*Gloucestershire - George II. Attractive vellum manuscript Recovery document, dated 28th November 1747, fine large portrait of the King in initial letter, with a highly decorative top border in attractive calligraphy, the document relates to Witham Montgomery's claim against John Staples for the recovery of the Manors of Codrington and Wapley, claiming them as his right and inheritance with fragments of the Great seal of George II (1)

*Leicestershire - Hungarton Poor School. Two-sheet manuscript vellum document, dated 7th February 1874,. for the granting of land and building of a school in Hungarton, Leicester, for the education of children and adults, only of the labouring or poor class, being an elementary school for the promotion of the education of the poor, signed by the Lord Bishop of Peterborough and others with seals and small plan . The document sets out the strict management and rules the school is to have, including the rights of the committee to dismiss any master, mistress or teacher as they see fit. Contributors of funds for the running of the school are given, the names including Viscount Downe. (1)

*London - Sir Thomas Myddleton. Fine manuscript vellum indenture dated 11th December 1623, between Sir Thomas Myddleton, Knight and Alderman of London and Brothwell Lloyd for the Manor of Leighton Hall in Montgomerie, with all his rights members and appurtenances, the document in fine condition, with good signature of Sir Thomas Myddleton, complete with pendant wax seal. Sir Thomas Myddleton (1550-1631, Lord Mayor of London) was an original member of the East India company, the New River Company and the Virginia Company. (1)

*Marlborough (John Churchill, 1st Duke, 1650-1722). Four leaves of accounts receipts to the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, for various goods and services, April 1696 to April 1697, in total forty-three consecutively written receipts, each written and signed in the hand of the supplier, with breif details and including amount paid, signatories include Frances Lyne "0.6s.2d. "for the Ladys masters, the Shoemaker and ?mantow woman", (15 to G. Arthaud "for one year wages", also (1.11s.3d. "for mony layd out for Lord Churchill", M. Laroche ((4 for lace), William King ((20), Samuel ?Clothier ((20 "for painting work don at St. James House"), ?Gardye ("twenty four chares bought in Hoalland by my Lady Villers" and later "tea red for my Lady Villers"), Magret Healy, John Dissoll, Estienne Hugueny, Margaret Reeve, James Marchand, Anne Johnson, John Clarke, Robert Magee, Elizabeth Smith, Francis Burton, George Collwell, Theodore Chester, William Sherard, ?Gabriel Douglas, Gilbert Abrahall, William Emerson, J. Pecher, John Oxton, Henry Trovell, William Nash, ? Horwood, Ann Hon and Nicolas De Laussac, paper ruled in red, folio, together with an unrelated and later small manuscript book of copied epigrams. Churchill was created earl of Marlborough in 1689 and 1st Duke of Marlborough in 1702, three years before the battle of Belenheim and the start of the construction of Blenheim Castle. The Lady Villers referred to in two of the receipts is presumably Barbara Villiers (1641-1709, Duchess of Cleveland), mistress of King Charles II and her cousin, John Churchill, later Duke of Marlborough. (2)

*Old English Inns. Collection of attractive large sheet manuscript vellum indentures, 19th c., all detailing the sale of old drinking houses including The Red Lion, The Anchor, The Bull, The White Hart Inn, Angel & Crown, The Beaufort Arms Tavern, The Spotted Horse, Coopers Arms, The Sun, etc., all in good condition with their original wax seals (14)

*Suffolk - Layston. Fine manuscript vellum indenture dated 20th December 1627, from Thomas Bedingfield (eminent lawyer, 1593-1661) of Grays Inn, Middlesex, to Pire Williams, relating to the sale "for ever" of his estate at Layston in Suffolk, with signature of Thomas Bedingfield and attractive fleur-de-lys heraldic pendant wax seal (1)

*Wales - James I. A most attractive vellum manuscript Exemplification Recovery document, dated 27th June 1603,. written in an ornate dark chancery script, in which Matthew Jones petitions against Gilbert Jones esquire, for one messuage, one toft, one barn, two gardens, seventy acres of land and eight acres of meadow with appurtenances in Welshtowne, Gyngroy vaur, Gyngroy vechan, Boole & Guylsfield (Montgomery), with small fragment of the Great Chancery Seal attached, with translation (1)

Naval Interest: A MANUSCRIPT INVENTORY OR SHIP'S MANIFEST OF THE "ROYAL GEORGE", a first-rate 100-gun warship launched 18 Feb 1756, giving dimensions in great detail; Provisions of food etc for four months; Personnel; with total weight, the reverse giving details of stores supplied in May 1756 for six months, including weights of sails, cables and cordage, ordnance and shot, etc, in ink on laid paper with Royal Arms and Royal Cypher GR watermarks, 37.5cm x 30.5cm, (12in x 14.2in) in modern perspex display mount with stand

A LATE VICTORIAN LADY'S MANUSCRIPT ALBUM, the morocco cover tooled in gilt."Writing Album/Pollie Henderson", containing a variety of manuscript verse, watercolour landscapes and seascapes, flower studies, penmanship, humour, etc., from mainly Westmorland contributions, 1899-1919.

A MOST ENTERTAINING MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT OF A TRIP FROM GIBRALTAR TO NORTH AFRICA on a hunting expedition, in the hand of Lieutenant H.E.Baker of the 1st Battalion, 4th Regiment of Foot (The King's Own Royal Regiment) written between 4th-19th September, 1875, during which he gives graphic details of the adventures of himself and his companions, Harrison and Green of the same regiment, and Dantez, a civilian living in Gibraltar, and a local hunter named Yashi, comprising 36 pps, in ink on wove paper, (8vo size) ANOTHER ACCOUNT in the same hand (by Baker), describing his journey from London, via Calais to Brindisi, by rail, thence by P & O ship to Suez in company with fellow passengers, referred to as P.G. (Pretty Girl), to whom he quickly engineered an introduction, and who was subsequently referred to as OGIEL (Only girl I Ever Loved), GJM (German Jesuit Missionary), Lady Tichborne "who is a caution, he's a young ass", and others. Written in an entertaining manner and giving an interesting picture of English upper-class attitudes in the days before "political correctness," the account finishes "Please burn when read", which instruction was, fortuitously, ignored. Manuscript in ink on lined paper 14 pps. (4to size), n.d. 1870s, and A MILITARY FORM (W.O. Form 1121) granting Leave of Absence (on sick leave) to Lt. Baker 23rd July - 25 September, 1877. Signed by Lord Napier of Magdala, GCB, GCSI, General Commanding the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1877, together with a typewritten transcript of the first two items.

A GROUP OF SUNDRY MANUSCRIPT LEGAL DOCUMENTS comprising: Last Will and Testa-ment of William Knowles, Warrington, 1779, Another, William Knowles the Younger, 1770, Sale by Auction of premises in Warrington, 1787 (all on paper), A vellum Surrender, Halton, Cheshire, 1785 and A Vellum Release, Runcorn, 1842 (5)

A MOROCCO-BOUND GAME BOOK by R. Webster & Co, London, having manuscript entries from August, 1950 until 1986, armorial bookplate of William Anthony Sells, and TWO CLOTH-BOUND FISHING BOOKS covering the period 1930 to 1963, with similar bookplates, (3)

A FIRST HALF 19TH-CENTURY COLLAGE ENTITLED "BATCHELOR'S REQUISITES" perhaps a gift to a prospective university student, comprising a double fold of early 19th-century cream laid paper, with A.PIRIE & SONS and oval Britannia watermarks, having sewn-on fabric items of miniature clothing etc, with amusing manuscript comments,including a silk cravat in the style of circa 1835, 42cm x 32cm, (16.5in x 11in)

A brass sextant inscribed "Wm.Heath, Plymouth" in fitted mahogany case with various lenses, 28 cms, with manuscript note book.

A quantity of 19c and 20c manuscript deeds on vellum and paper, some of local interest.

A handwritten French manuscript, 'Six mois de ma vie, ou histoire des trois Prisons par lesquelles jay Passe pendant...', together with an old typed transcript and several 1920s French pamphlets.

Byrom, John. The Universal English Short-Hand, manuscript, title and 123 pages, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, worn, 8vo, [late 18th century]

Dugdale (Sir William). The History of St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, from its foundation: extracted out of original charters, records, leiger-books, and other manuscripts ... with a continuation and additions, including the republication of Sir William Dugdale's life from his own manuscript; by Henry Ellis, 1818, b&w eng. port. frontis., XXXX (66?), including some folding (?), small oval library ink stamp to foot of portrait, and one or two small oval inkstamps to margins elsewhere, single heavier library withdrawl inkstamp to verso of preface leaf, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt dec. spine, recased with orig. spine laid down, rubbed to edges, with small gilt oval library stamp towards foot of upper cover, thick folio (1).

Gilbert (Davies). The Parochial History of Cornwall, Founded on the Manuscript Histories of Mr. Hals and Mr. Tonkin..., 4 vols, 1838, new endpapers, untrimmed, boards, rebacked preserving orig. cloth and label, sunned to spine, 8vo, together with Collins (J.H.). Observations on the West of England Minings Region, Being an Account of the Mineral Deposits and Economic Geology of the Region, and Forming Vol. XIV of the Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, 1912, folding map. frontis., 18 col. plts. and folding diags. to rear, contemp. green cloth gilt, 8vo (5).

Kent - Sutton at Hone. Three fragile hand-coloured pen and ink estate plans on paper, late 16th c., each with ornamental title cartouche, scale and dividers, one titled Newlands Heath with adjacent manors of Sutton at Hone (dated 1589), including the names of 'Jack Smithes croft - Peartrye', 'Holloway Croft - Sir H: Cobham', 'The Steen - Mr Boswell', 'Rogers Croft', 'Jones croft', 'Mr Farbye', 'Birch Wood', 'Tylehouse Ground', etc., showing roads to Swanley, from Farmingham, etc.; the second of the manors of Sutton at Hone, undated and divided into eight squares, the largest showing 'Beechen hayes' and surrounding parcels of land, one parcel named 'Black Plage Feilde; the third undated, untitled and divided into sixteen squares, including roads titled Broad Lane, Tynkers Pitt Lane, Wheatersh Lane, 'from Barnend to Hawley', and lands of Sir Henry Cobham, Lady Pawlet, Mr Sheres, etc., all coloured with red, green and ochre pigments with black borders, all showing boundaries, woods and a few red-roofed dwellings, all with some soiling and sl. discolouration, some minor wear, all stitched to and strengthened by several contemporary backing sheets, each approx. 44 x 57 cm, plus five manuscript receipts and handwritten paper fragments relating to Sutton at Hone, 17th/18th c. (8).

Wood (Anthony). Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford ..., 2nd ed., very much Corrected and Enlarged; with the Addition of above 500 New Lives from the Author's Original Manuscript, 1721, title to each vol. printed in red and black, modern endpapers with library bookplate to front pastedowns of each vol., some slight spotting, modern library style dark brown qtr. morocco, folio (2).

Helston Smuggling. Search Warrant. A printed single-page form, completed in manuscript and signed by W. Rogers as Justice of the Peace, dated 14th December, 1785, authorising Richard Williams, an Excise Officer, to enter into and search properties belonging to William Penprase(?) of Wendron and Loveday Johns of Grade, looking for "Spirituous Liquors which have been Illegally Imported (1).

Helston Poor Law. A collection of documents relating to base or bastard children chargeable to the Borough of Helston, comprising approximately forty "Voluntary Depositions and Examinations" of the women, "...big with a Base Child, or Children", most on the standard printed form but a few completely in manuscript, each signed by the Mayor and with the mark of the woman, and each naming the father, together with some fifteen similar Depostions made after the birth of the child, most of these in manuscript throughout but a few on forms, giving the same information also some fifteen Orders of Removal To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Borough, for the removal of persons, some being unmarried women with bastard children, from Helston to other Boroughs and other related documents, including a Form of Commitment of Martha Caddy to the House of Correction at Bodmin for twelve months, 5th September 1820, for having had bastard children. A fine collection of Poor Law documents, the earliest Deposition being from 1775, continuing through to the 1820s. On the 11th March 1794 Susannah Tregeeg made the deposition that the Father of her unborn base child was Richard Cock, a Private of the Somersetshire militaria. Twas ever thus. (-).

Sundry Freehold. Land Particular of Sundry Freehold Lands, of the late Thomas Reed, Esq. to be sold by Auction, at Trevales in Stithians, on Thursday 30th September, 1813, a large 6-page printed document, in tabular form, giving details of the 63 lots to be sold, with a docket title ("Penaluna", Printer, Helston), with contemporary annotation, and two draft manuscript lists of Conditions of Sale, each with extensive amendment. The lots for sale were in the parishes of Stithians, Wendron, Mabe, Penryn, Gwennap and Constenton. (1).

[Manuscript]. A Story of the Massacre of Glencoe, Edinburgh, 1857, 84pp., neatly written in brown ink in a forward sloping hand on lined paper (watermarked R. Turner, Chafford Mills, 1855), eight orig. full-page pencil drawings, incl. a view of Glencoe (looking west), Fort William, and the Foot of Ben Nevis, a Highland Chieftain, Putting the Stone, Sword Dance, etc., some spotting and browning, contemp. calf gilt, minor wear to extrems., rebacked, small 4to (1).

Elgar (Sir Edward, 1857-1934, composer). Autograph musical quotation, from 'The Apostles' [Opus 49], signed 'Edward Elgar: Malvern', dated 4th April 1903, four short hand-drawn staves with music and the libretto 'The face of all the East / is now a-blaze with Light! / The Dawn reacheth even unto / He...bron!', all in the composer's neat hand and framed within an Art Nouveau style green pencil ornamental border (in an unknown hand), dated by Elgar at head, quotation source, signature and place at foot, one page (approx. 34 x 21 cm), the leaf sewn into the Fifteenth [and final] issue of 'The Wyche of Wizard' (1903), along with various manuscript stories, poems, drawings and watercolours, etc., orig. wrappers, folio (1).

Manuscript on vellum. Phillada Flouts Me, written out and decorated by Marjorie Thompson, Royal College of Art, 1930, nine leaves with eight attractive illustrations in colours, calligraphic text in black with red initials, orig. half blue morocco in gilt-dec. black morocco clam-shell book box, approx. 22 x 17 cm, together with Breviary of Love. Being the Private Journal... of Jeanne Aurelie Grivolin, [manuscript on paper] Written out and Illustrated by Marian Marsh, 1947, 104pp in a neat calligraphic hand, seven hand-drawn colour illustrations, t.e.g., orig. crushed blue morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a little rubbed, small folio (2).

Devon - Henry VIII. Devon - Henry VIII. Attractive manuscript vellum document, dated 8th May 1538, written in a neat Chancery script, in which Edward Ford and Joan, his wife, grant John Salter a field called Hornblach, part of the Barton of Fordmore in Plymtree, Devon (1).

Earl of Nottingham. Attractive vellum manuscript indenture, dated 13th July 1653, between Charles Cokayne, son and heir of Sir William Cokayne (Lord Mayor of London), Heneage Finch [First Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor 1621-1682 ] of the Inner Temple, London, and William Daynes of London, relating to land and property that the late Sir William Cokayne did inhabit in Broad Street, in the Parish of St. Peter the Poor in the City of of London, also the late home of Henry Lord Marquise of Dorchester (1606-1680), fine condition with a nice bold signature of Heneage Finch, together with three perfect pendant wax seals attached, two showing the coat of arms of Cokayne and Finch (1).

Essex - Edward VI. Manuscript vellum grant, dated 20th May 1551, from Thomas Tirrell of London, Esquire, to Henry Farraunt and Lawrence Farraunt, for four pounds, of a croft or close of about one and a half acres in Hempsted, Essex, between the lands of John Soo, Sir Henry Tyrrell and Henry Ferraunt, which Thomas Tirrel held of Edward VI, (a contemporary endorsement states that the livery of seisin was performed in the presence of witnesses), retaining a perfect pendant wax seal showing the bust of a Graeco-Roman figure (1).

Essex - Hop Tithes. Interesting manuscript document dated 8th May 1630, detailing on some fourteen pages the Grant by William, Bishop of London, of various tithes and payments in Thaxstead, Essex, concerning a dispute that has arisen between the rector and vicar over rights to take tithes of hops in the parish, the bishop makes a settlement of the tithes between them and states payments they are to make to each other, with accompanying translation (1).

Gloucester - Grant of James I. Manuscript vellum grant, dated 22nd June 1618, large bold hand-executed historiated initial letter encompassing a large and superbly executed portrait of tile King in plumbago and ink, also with an attractive and elaborate hand decorated top border, granting from William Heydon to Simon Codrington of Codrington, the Manor of Cudelington, alias Codrington and Wapley in Gloucester, with all its members and appurtenances, which was formerly in the possession off the dissolved monastery or abbey of Stanley, in Wiltshire, etc., with accompanying translation. A fine and scarce portrait document of James I, though now without the Great Seal of James I. (1).

Grant of Annulment of Marriage. Scarce manuscript vellum grant of 13th July 1646, from the Bishop of London, granting the annulment of the marriage, daughter of Daniel Harvey, citizen and merchant of London, to William Halke, citizen of London, on the grounds of consanguinity, following on the court case held on the 12th June 1646, together with a thirty-page paper manuscript used in the court hearing, being the Council's opinion as to the legality of this marriage based on consanguinity and the fact that Mary was only thirteen and that her father did not consent to the marriage, the verdict being of all lawyers concerned was that the marriage was forbidden and unlawful under divine, canonical and civil laws, with pedigree on first page (1).

Hertfordshire - Manor of Gattersbury. Early manuscript document on vellum, dated 1st May 1573, in which Thomas Hanchett, Esquire, conveys to Sir Edward Capell, Edward Parker, Esquire, his son and heir, Henry Lord Morley, Thomas Barnardyston, Arthur Hevenningham, Peter Grey, Andrew Grey, William Claxton, Andrew Mallory, lvan Grey, Mathew Grey, Edward Halfhede, Francis Scroggs, Thomas Bennett, George Dyer and Walter Hayward, all his Manors of Gattersbury, Uphall and Masters, with their appurtenances, in Hertford, etc., written in a nice dark Chancery script and retaining a perfect pendant wax seal, showing a coat of arms, with accompanying translation (1).

Illuminated leaf. Manuscript vellum leaf in Latin, (?)15th c., twenty lines, double column and double-sided, initials alternating red and blue, one large historiated initial in red and blue, approx. 36 x 26 cm, together with two 20th-c. illuminated leaves on vellum, the first a poem [All That's Past] by Walter de la Mare, twenty-four lines in red, black and blue with three large initials, approx. 68 x 39 cm, plus five verses in twenty lines from 'The Immortal Hour' [by Fiona Macleod], c. 1930, thre-line initial 'B' in blue, gold and brown, approx. 23 x 13 cm, all framed and glazed (3).

Illuminated leaf. Part of a prayer in English on vellum, 19th c.(?), thirty-two lines, double-column, three and four initials per page illuminated in fresh-looking gold, red and blue, floral decoration dividing columns, approx. 300 x 195 mm, held by three stitches in 20th-c. morocco folder, together witha (?)13th-c. manuscript vellum leaf, double column text, 28 lines per column, a few simple red or blue decrations and flourishes, calligraphic side-notes to both margins, some old annotations, a little soiled, approx. 220 x 165 mm, tipped into a 20th-c. blue morocco gilt folder by Bumpus, slim 4to (2).

Letters Patent. Manuscript vellum document, dated 16th December, in the 31st year of Charles II (1679), granting to William Bridgeman, the office of Clerk to the Privy Council (1).

Lincolnshire - Candlesby Poor Relief. Manuscript accounts ledger covering the period from Easter 1807 to 25th June 1837, each period divided into two lists, the first 'An Assessment made and agreed upon by the Inhabitants..., for defraying the Expenses incident ot the Poor...', giving names of occupiers and rentals paid, the second listing Disbursements by the Overseer, items including summonses, examinations, journeys, loads of straw, coal, house repairs, hats, shoes, bricks and tiles, lime and sand, working on the roads, etc., with dates and amounts, approx. 100 leaves in a neat hand, last few leaves det., a little soiling, hinges cracked, orig. vellum, worn, folio (1).

London - Pleas at Westminster. Manuscript contemporary copy of a plea, c. 1641,. by Mr Payne on behalf of Daniel Harvey (1587-1647, brother of Dr William Harvey) of St Lawrence Pountney, London, Receiver General for the county and City of Lincoln, by virtue of that office he now owes large sums of money to the Exchequer, in part payment he has assigned to the Exchequer bonds which Katherine Lady Sandys of Northborne, Kent, and others, had made out to him in the sum of 500, Katherine has now died and the Exchequer demands his money, seventy-six leaves written to rectos only, 4to (1).