Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1919
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/394
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/120 (page 415)
    Viscount Sidmouth, Charles Talbot Duke of Shrewsbury, John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, Sir William Trumbull, Sir John Temple, Charles 2nd Viscount Townshend, A. L.s. 4 pp. 4to, an interesting letter relating to the Old Pretender; Sir William Temple, L.s.; Sir Francis Walsingham, L. s. September 5th, 1587, to the Vicomte de Turenne, and L. s. 2 pp. folio, August 7th, 1581; T. Wentworth Earl of Strafford, L. s. 1 p. folio, December 11th, 1639, and others (a parcel) 5 pp. 4to, September 25th, 1806, to Henry Banks, M.P. an interesting letter respecting the intentions of Bonaparte, the position of Russia, etc., and two other letters (one unsigned) Dolwmeintcresting.\ also, ai vermarioncm mrss 15 pp. 4to, September 3rd, 1802, to J. Bentham, in answer to the latter’s statements of the treatment to which he had been sub- jected ; William Paulet Marquis of Winchester, L. s. 2 pp. folio, to the High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, regarding a levy, a number of letters and papers relating to Henry ist Mar- quis of Worcester, and to Edward 2nd Marquis of Worcester ; sit W. Wyndham, a series of seven A. L. s. and L. s.; Sir H. Winefield, L. s. 1 p. folio; Richard Colley Marquess of Wellesley, Thomas tst Marquis of Wharton, Samuel Whit- bread, and others (a parcel) by Sir Egerton Brydges, 4to, boards almost daily from London to Sir Richard Bulstrode, resident at Brussels ; one volume of these has been printed in the Morrison Catalogue, but this exhausts only about one-fifth of the material, 1667-89, in five 4to cases Sir Richard Bulstrode was an author, a soldier, and perhaps one of the best-known diplomatists of his time. After serving in the army from 1643 to 1667 he was in 1673 appointed agent at the court of Brussels, receiving the honour of knighthood on his return to England in 1675. A few months later he went back to Brussels in the capacity of Resident, and after the accession of James II received the title of Envoy. He remained in Brussels until the Revolu- tion, when he accompanied James to St. Germain, where he died in 1711 at the age of 101. The papers were communi- cations made to him from this country in the form of news- letters, giving almost daily the most minute details of everything going on at court and in the country. They may be looked upon as more or less a companion to and a continuation of Pepys’ Diary.