1738 EDWARD VII. (1841-1910). King of Great Britain. A.L.S. to Admiral A. C. Hobart-Hampden, "Hobart Pasha," Naval Adviser to the Sultan of Turkey. 4 pp., 8vo. Sandringham, January 25th, 1885. £6 6s A very friendly and chatty letter, wherein the Prince invites Hobart to visit him; also mentioning that he had to attend a Masonic Luncheon. Sd. you like to come here to-morrow I would suggest yr. coming by the 5.5 train fr. St. Pancras, wh. reaches Wolperton Station at 8.41, where a carriage will meet you and yr. luggage, and I will order a late dinner for you here, as I shall be away at Lynn at a Masonic Luncheon, and not return here before 9 or 10. On Thursday I am going to have my last day's partridge driving, and shall be delighted if you will shoot also. I can provide you with guns and cartridges should you not have yours with you. Etc. 1739 EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES (born 1894). An unique and most interesting item, being the SIGNATURES OF THE PRESENT PRINCE OF WALES, "EDWARD," AND OF HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, "ALBERT." Written together, with date in the former's autograph. on notepaper bearing the address of Frogmore House, Windsor. I page, 8vo. February, 1904. £4 IOS Written by the present Prince of Wales and his younger brother nine years ago, when aged about ten and nine years respectively. 9th 1740 "ELIOT (George," 1819-1880). Novelist. A.L.S. "Marian Evans," to her publisher, John Chapman. 2 pp., 8vo. Rosehill, 12 June, 1851. 1741 £6 6s A letter of unusual interest, complaining of some indiscretion on her publisher's part, mentioning J. S. Mill, James Martineau, and others; also as to the editorship of the Westminster Review" that Chapman was then about to bring out. " "I am chiefly concerned that you should have appeared to overlook Hickson's interest or have failed in etiquette towards him. If you had asked him for an introduction to J. S. Mill, it was clearly wrong to introduce yourself by letter. I "I am quite willing to agree to your proposition about the nominal editorship, or to anything else really for the interest of the Review. On the whole I think with you as to the expediency of your plan. Perhaps it was better to send a written answer to James Martineau. heartily wish the prospectus had been longer delayed and thought over before it was sent out to any of the dons. too hurried. But you will say, After meat, comes too late. Still, the moral is not useless. Etc. Everything has been mustard.' Your wisdom Caution for the future." Chapman was a great friend of "George Eliot," and it was at his house she first met G. H. Lewes. A.L.S." Marian E." to the same. 14 Sept. (1851). 2 pp., 8vo. Rosehill, £2 25 A trip to Brighton on this perfect Autumn day may be a good thing but lying on the grass is a better. I wonder you will commit yourself to an excursion train. Heaven send you may not return home piecemeal." Etc. 1742 ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND (1533-1603). PRIVY COUNCIL LETTER, signed by some of the principal Statesmen of the period, including THOMAS LORD BUCKHURST, famous Poet and Lord Treasurer; SIR THOMAS EGERTON, Lord Keeper: EDWARD SOMERSET, EARL OF WORCESTER, Master of the Horse; SIR JOHN FORTESCUE, Chancellor of the Exchequer; and ROBERT CECYLL, 1st EARL OF SALISBURY, Secretary of State. I full page, folio. Richmond, 5th Oct., 1602. Ordering payment to Thomas Lake of £40 in reward for his attendance and services in the matter of the exchange between England and Ireland. 1743 ELIZABETH (1770-1840). Princess of England. Daughter of George III., and Landgravine of Hesse Homburgs. A.L.S. to Lady Ely. 3 pp., 8vo. July 4th, circa 1810. 12s 6d Very friendly letter to Lady Ely, mentioning the Queen, her mother, and Lord and Lady Abercorn, of whom she says: “For we have sensibly felt for Lord Abercorn this fresh severe stroke. We sincerely hope that Lord Abercorn's health has not suffered and we trust that he will be supported to be able to look after her grandchildren.” Etc. 1744 James, 12 Maie, 1835. A.L.S. (in French). 2 pp., 4to. Au Chateux de St. IOS 6d (Trans.) :—“. I have just written to the Landgrave to offer him my horses when all the family are at Homburg and even my carriages." Etc., etc. OF DANISH INTEREST. 1745 ELLENBOROUGH (Edward Law, 1st Earl of, 1790-1871). Governor-General of India. A.L.S. to Mons. de Bille. 3 pp., 8vo. Eaton Square, Feb. 17th, 1864. 15S A most interesting letter concerning the Schleswig-Holstein War, 1863-4. I can well understand how struck the Danes must have been by the early loss of the Danewirke, on their power of preserving which they had erroneously been led to rely. The retirement of the Army was not ordered an hour too soon. "Your soldiers have behaved beautifully, and the whole Danish people nobly, too." Etc. 1746 ELLWOOD (Thomas, 1639-1713). Quaker. Friend of Milton. Suggested to him "Paradise Regained." A very long and clearly written A.L.S. to Cuthbert Hayhurst. 4 PP., FOLIO, and comprising some 220 lines. 24th Dec., 1681. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE NO. XI.) £15 158 An exceedingly rare autograph letter from the hand of Milton's great friend. The world is indebted to Ellwood's suggestion for Milton's second epic poem, Paradise Regained"; in 1665 Ellwood paid a visit to the poet at Chalfont St. Giles, where, says he, "after some common discourse had passed between us, he called for a manuscript of his, which he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me and read it at my leisure, and, when I had done so, return it to him with my judgment thereon." He found it was Paradise Lost," and when he returned it, was asked by the Author how he liked it and what he thought of it. Ellwood answered this question, and added, Thou has said much here of Paradise Lost, but what has thou to say of Paradise Found ?” made no answer, but sat some time in a muse." When Ellwood called on Milton afterwards in London, he was shewn the second poem, called "Paradise Regained," and Milton added, This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont which before I had not thought of." ་་ 'He This letter is a very long discourse (most clearly written) concerning the Halifax Vicarage, Tithes, Rent Charges, etc., upon which Ellwood had evidently been asked to express an opinion, and making, in connection therewith, references to a book he had published. The following are some short extracts from the letter: "Dear Friend Cuthbert Hayhurst, I have att length gained time to peruse that paper which I receivd from thee, concerning the Inhabitants of Hallifax Vicarage, of which I should have given ye an Accompt sooner, had not my being ingaged in Controversies agt Enemies necessitated mee to intrench a little upon ye patience of my friends. The paper says, The Inhabitants of Hallifax Viccarage were fined (in time of popery) for Tythe Corn & Hay, which they, refuseing to pay after a long & tedious Suit, it was concluded & decreed yt a Yearly Rent or paym should be charged and Settled upon ve Land & paid out of itt by every owner & possessor thereof, whether they had any Corn or Hay or none. And yt by ye paymt of ye same Annuity or Yearly Rent or Sum of Money the Lands should be discharged & accquitted of & from ye Claim of Tythe Corn & Hay for ever. The first Qu: is whether had the then owners & proprietors of those Lands, legall & rightfull power (being papists) to charge & Settle such a Rent or annuall paymt upon their Lands-yea or nay? I answer, nay: they had not; because such a Rent or Annuall paymt being paid as Tythe for Tythe, or in Liew of Tythe (which sprang & arrose from a popish superstitious corrupt Ground, was established by an Antichristian power, & imployed to a wrong bad use & End) was evill, and they in charging themselves (or consenting to be charged) therewith did evill; and they could have no rightfull power to do evill themselves, much less to entail upon their posterity a necessity of doing evill. The paper seems to allow they had power to charge & settle such a Rent, and inferrs itt from some passages in a Book of mine, entitaled, The Foundation of Tythes Shaken in which that they had a legall power to grant and convey any part of their Lands, etc., or to charge their Lands with ye paymts of an Annuity or yearly Rent, &c. ELLWOOD (Thomas)-continued. "Now because some Advantage seems to be taken to countenance ye paym of this Composition-tythe under ye name of Rent, from my allowing yt ye proprietors had a legall power to charge their Lands with ye paymt. of an Annuity or yearly Rent; I think it necessary in y first place to clear my intention in those passages in my Book, by solemnly declaring yt what I there writt of Rent-Charges, Annuities, Yearly Rents & ye like had not any ye least relation to Tythes converted into Rent, or to any Composition mony for Tythes, or any other kind of Charge or paymt w.h in its Rise, Ground, Use, or End, had any Ecclesiasticall or superstitious Tendency. But only to such Rent Charges, Annuities or paym's as are of a civill nature. And seeing ye whole Scope of my Booke was to shew yt ye granting of Tythes was wrong & evill-itt cannot reasonably be supposed yt by granting them a power to charge their Lands with yearly Rents: I granted they had a right full power to charge their Lands with Tythes, or any Rent in liew of Tythes, or as a composition for Tythes, for though I yield a man may charge his own Land with Annuities, Rent, Charges, paym's, &s. ; yet I do not yield yt he may rightfully & justifiably do this from an evill ground or to an evill use or End. And if any one so does, though his Successors may thereby be bound in Law to a passive submission, yet are they not thereby bound in Conscience to an Active compliance, nor will their being bound by Law to such paym's, justify them before God, & in their own Consciences in ye paymi of such things as are contrary to good conscience, as I take this to bee Thus a Pigg is said to be a Tythe Pigg & so paid & received, although it be but ye Seventh of ye Litter, not ye Tenth, and in many places they have a Modus, a Custom, Prescription or Composition whereby they pay some Small Sum of Money as an Acknowledgmt of the Tythe, but much short of ye real value. So I remember one of the priests (to whome that Booke of mine is answer) in ye vindication of his friendly Conference, p. 320, mentions a piece of meadow ground, the Tythe of which was computed at 5d p. annum, but by Composition there was 2d p. annum payable, & yett I suppose itt will not be denyed but yt 24 a Year was Tythe, though for short of ye exact Tenth; and paid not in Hay but in Money. " Now for answer to the 2d thing inquireable. Viz. Upon what reason, ground, and score, & to what use, purpose & end those Tyths were setled by parliam upon ye Crown; it is to be understood yt when King Henry 8h falling out with ye Pope, transferrd ye Supremacy & Head ship of ye Church from the Pope to himselfe; the English Clergy (though then popish, yet Struck with ye Suddain down fall of their Cardinall Legat Woolsey, & p'haps not dareing to do otherwise, or thinking yt ye safest Course) renounced ve popes Supremacy; & in their Convocation Anno 1530 did solomly & publickly recognise ye King to be their Spirituall Head; The Parliamt seconding ye Clergy by Statute enacted & declared ye King to be y only Supream head on Earth of ye Church, and thereupon they setled great ecclesiastical Revenues upon him in yt office, or rather upon ye Office, for I remember I have read in one of the Statutes thus, viz., Be it enacted, &c., That the Kings magestie his Heirs & Successors, Kings of this Realm, for more Augmentation & meintenance of ye Royall Estate of his imperiall Crown and dignity of supreme head of ye Church of England shall have, &c. Now since itt is certain that much of (if not all) those Church Revenues which have been setled by parliam't on ye Kings of England were setled on you under yt Qualification & upon yt Consideration as Head of Church; & to support yt Ecclesiasticall Supremacy which they had taken from ye pope unto themselves." Etc., etc. 1747 EMERSON (Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882). American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM, entitled "Hermione." Comprising some 78 lines on 3 full pages, 4to. £38 Autograph manuscripts of Emerson are of excessive rarity. This 1748 AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM, entitled "Mithridates." Comprising 34 lines on 2 pp., 4to. £22 The original autograph manuscript of his fine poem on Mithridates the Great, King of Pontus, who flourished in the second and first centuries B.C., and was the hero of several wars with the Romans. He is fabled to have taken posions systematically to gain immunity from their toxic effects. The last two lines of this manuscript differ from the 1847 version. I cannot spare water or wine, Give me agates for my meat; Give me cantharids to eat; From air and ocean bring me foods From all zones and altitudes." Etc. 1749 ERSKINE (Thomas, 1st Baron, 1750-1823). Lord Chancellor. I page, 4to. Dec. 2nd. A.L.S. 8s 6d "Lord Grenville has got the one, and your brother, Mr. C. W. Wyne, the other; otherwise I should have been happy in obeying your commands.' |